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It's not just that 20 minutes

I allocated 20 minutes for writing these yodels. 20 minutes seems to be enough when I know what I am writing about. I can write my thoughts on the subject out. I hope somewhat sensible way. There is even some structure. 1400 characters isn't that much after all. Ten tweets, around 250-300 words.

There might be so topics that I could do this all with just 20 minutes. But in general if I had to write about a random topic I don't think that text would make any sense. I'm not that good, yet.

The process starts usually immediately after I press the publish-button for the days text. I start thinking about the next topic. First about what should it be. Then what should I write about it. Sometimes there is also moments of doubt: should I write about it?

Eventually I have a rough structure about the topic, hopefully before I start writing. Then I just focus on that, writing. Trying to make a story out of that structure. Trying to write correctly.

Even if I have the structure ready and some sort of thought aboit how to write 20 minutes is still tight. I usually don't have time reading the text before publishing. No time to pay attention to spelling. Good thing there is spell checker, predictive text input and word suggestions that help with that.

I also can't just think about the next topic. I need to be on a lookaut for a new potential topics all the time.