WritingPhilosophy

Assembled here is a small selection of tips for making the most of WikiWikiWiki.

1. Write about what interests you.

Unlike other wiki softwares commonly available online, the focus here is on fun. Simply write as you see fit, modifying as you go. If you enjoy Japanese cooking utensils, start a page on CookingChopsticks or DropLids (PROTIP: These articles don't exist yet, so go make them). If you find the online discussion of TokusatsuMovies contrived, stimulate a fresh discussion here! Which brings us to the next point:

2. Write as if in conversation with something.

Writing, like all human activity, is a cycle. You start with A, moving on to B... and when reaching C, you revise A. When you talk, you quickly parse the words of your conversation partners and create a response. It's all in the creativity. So, consider WikiWikiWiki as something like a conversation without visible conversationalists: a pack of online NEETs is always combing over what you write here, filtering it through their own understanding, grunting, laughing, even thinking of a response as they read it. Writing becomes much more lively when you view it as a conversation. A conversation with yourself, with someone who wronged you, with history, with your genitals...

3. Take your time.

Every day, we wake up and the clock ticks before it's time to sleep again. With each day that passes, the ideas you write about might be made irrelevant. They might glow in the warmth of new experiences, or cower before the pillars of newfound beliefs. In writing and reading, everything gets quickly reconfigured by what you already know, what you learned, and what you learned later. This all means: don't rush it. Effective ideas are the fruits of long, consistent polishing... polishing that often happens without us realizing it consciously.



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