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Look: here's an actual snippet from the first chapter of a…",{"id":88,"by":89,"text":90},"21509240","city41","Hiding the paragraph seems extreme to me. I'd like to refer back to what I wrote to get a sense of what I still need to write. Would it be better to instead make the previous…",{"id":92,"by":93,"text":94},"21506661","oblib","It certainly accomplishes the intended goal of hiding what you've just typed in a slick and quick way. I'm not sure why this is a good thing though. Often times I find I need to…",{"id":96,"by":97,"text":98},"21508259","zacharycohn","This strategy seems like it makes it very difficult to write. What if you lose track of what you've already said? It seems like a better solution is to just disable backspace.",{"value":100,"source":66,"evidence":101},"Editing while drafting works well for many writers",[102,106,110],{"id":103,"by":104,"text":105},"21507278","nickjj","This might be an unpopular opinion but I always edit while writing my first draft. 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