#PreWriting
Doing some prewriting
July 7, 2026 at 7:22 PM
prewriting my own eulogy with AI
July 1, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Prewriting is writing.
September 21, 2026 at 5:00 AM
I was prewriting stuff for the coverage of Trump’s next inauguration and some of it was a profanity laced draft version of:
November 10, 2024 at 7:07 PM
I hear fireworks and people cheering on the street outside my apartment. This can mean only one thing: everyone knows I just finished prewriting all my newsletters for next week.
June 14, 2026 at 3:34 AM
prewriting someone else’s obituary that tears them apart before dying yourself is some incredible work. i am in awe. she might be dead but it didn’t stop her from eulogizing him with two middle fingers up
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Prewriting history.
A really charming #earlymodern funeral monument to Margaret Cleyton in Chepstow's medieval church. Constructed in 1620, but she lived till 1627. The two men praying are the husbands she outlived!
October 28, 2024 at 7:32 AM
I mean, prewriting is the least embarrassing explanation here…
June 15, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Scripting 65 episodes of a podcast is a pretty good, if inefficient, way to do your prewriting for a novel.
November 18, 2025 at 2:23 PM
you can never go broke by prewriting “actually” and heavily sighing
This person is a professional political commentator
nymag.com/intelligence...
May 30, 2024 at 11:42 PM
currently prewriting a research paper on one of those
April 2, 2026 at 8:17 PM
We call this "prewriting" in the business.
July 21, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Fantastic blog post by @joycereynoldsward.bsky.social

"Why using Generative AI in your prewriting process is a Bad Idea": open.substack.com/pub/joycerey...
Why using Generative AI in your prewriting process is a Bad Idea
Warning: potentially controversial opinions ahead.
open.substack.com
May 12, 2025 at 9:30 AM
If Tulane wins, it'll be because I started prewriting my "Memphis beats Tulane" story, then Memphis false-started and it's been all Tulane since.
November 29, 2024 at 3:20 AM
3k words or prewriting and 2k of actual project so far
June 11, 2025 at 1:02 AM
prewriting jokes based on the name of nate's book ("on the edge") for when he inevitably explodes
Most “don’t dump Biden” people were “Biden shouldn’t be forced out, but if he can’t run it’s Harris” so not sure what point Nate Lead is making.
July 24, 2024 at 4:11 PM
(also, not included in my prewriting, but Miralleda is where MaMo & Co all hang out for Revenblis thanks to Sybil being a well off Traveler herself; iykyk they're having a bougie time)
September 2, 2026 at 10:11 AM
Whomever's prewriting Mitch's obit needs to start with, "Sen. Mitch McConnell, who stole two Supreme Court seats from the American public with devastating consequences, died yesterday at...".
February 20, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Rachel Aaron's 2k to 10k book, basically. The advice in there for prewriting etc defeats any empty page for me
This might seem a silly question, but writers: how do you *start* writing?

How do you bridge the gap between staring at an empty page, with only a story idea & vague sense of urgency in your head, and convincing yourself to actually Start Writing?

Sincerely,
Me, who's a bit afraid of writing 🫣
June 5, 2024 at 4:52 PM
Continuing the prewriting for this fucked up fairy book. Is my niche really about to be weird Florida trash homo fiction? Could be!
November 22, 2025 at 12:43 AM
back on the grind (prewriting my syllabus for Honors Rhetoric 2026)
July 4, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Doing a resumé after a certain age feels like prewriting your obit...
November 14, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Truth. No freaking way will I use ChatGPT for my prewriting process.
I reckon if you've been a writer for 15 years and you can comfortably replace part of your process with ChatGPT, it speaks volumes about your writing
May 17, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Prewriting my post.

Really crazy Manso didnt pinch any of those guys
September 7, 2025 at 8:24 PM
My opinion on 4 ttrpg play cultures:
Gnusto: I can get behind it when the prewriting of the story is collaborative
Nitfol: my personal favourite. I think other cultures steal more from it than they think
Blorb: my other favourite bc its play-oriented
Frotz: a fun side activity, but not a main course
May 21, 2026 at 11:36 PM