Jimmy Wales wrote:
When I sat down to write the article, though, I was
seized with
horrible writer's block. That's astounding, for a guy who does hardly
anything but write 8 hours a day 5 days a week. If my collected email
output were collected and published in book format, I hate to think of
what it must weigh.
I know what you mean.
What I like about Wikipedia is that I can quickly slap down the bones of
an article, without feeling that I have to get it *right*.
I can then leave it to simmer, and return to it a few weeks later,
admire what others have added to it and mercilessly rewrite my earlier work.
Run an article through a few cycles like that and you start to get good
stuff. :-)