From: M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2022 02:23:27 +0000 (-0800) Subject: memoir: yank out a new pt. 4!! X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?a=commitdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;h=8d0a2be60ccef09bebc12b468cc88500891bb229;hp=8d0a2be60ccef09bebc12b468cc88500891bb229;p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git memoir: yank out a new pt. 4!! Previously, I was imagining a three part structure, with the middle part being substantially bigger: "Blanchard's Dangerous Idea" (20K words), "Hill of Validity" (40K words), "Agreeing With Stalin" (20K words). The reason for keeping the middle part so large was because I thought the period from November 2018 (the Twitter thread that started the civil war) to September 2020 (the end of the Category War) was a unit that should be kept together. But when I started looking for the median of the piece by wordcount, it turns out it was actually after the discussion of "... Boundaries?" That actually is a good cutoff point! That is, previously I was thinking the structure was "2017 AGP freakout", "Category War", "political epilogue"—and I wasn't happy with how that put the December 2020 psychiatric disaster at the top of the political epilogue. (If it didn't belong in the story of the Category War ending September 2020, it chronologically fit in at the beginning of the next post.) But if Nov. 2018–Apr. 2019 is its own part, then the next part becomes the Whole Dumb Story of my alliance with the Vassarites, and it is natural for that to end with the psychiatric disaster of December 2020! I also get to use an awesome partial quote from Michael as a title (which just occured to me now while trying to think of a title). A 4·20K tetrology is better for readers than a middle-lop-sided 20K/40K/20K trilogy. There are also seem to be psychological/motivational benefits: this way, I'm actually done with pt. 3! (No TODO blocks, and probably not even that much editing.) If I finish what's now pt. 5 soon (seems doable), then I "just" have to go back an fill in the history for pt.s 2 and 4. I also think it changes the focus, in a good way?! By framing pt. 4 as the story of the Vassarites, I feel more like I'm telling a story, rather than writing a hate letter about Yudkowsky. I think this is good for me. ---