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 associated manual for authors with no Emacs experience.
 
 
+# Discussion
+
+Technical issues connecting to the BigBlueButton room, so no live Q&A
+
+-   Q: For writers who procrastinate, it\'s very tempting to fall into
+    the time sink of configuring Emacs rather than simply writing, even
+    with the optimal Emacs writing setup. Is this something you\'ve
+    encountered, and do you have any suggestions for how to combat it?
+    -   A: As probably all beginning Emacs users I spent a lot of time
+        tinkering. I decided that I should work with rather than on
+        Emacs and thus EWS was born. My prod config is 99% EWS with some
+        enhancements. My config developed by just starting with vanilla
+        Emacs and only add what I needed, as the need arose. 
+    -   Don\'t try to develop the ideal system in your mind and then
+        build it, let it grow organically.
+-   Q: How much success have you had getting writers to use Emacs \--
+    and *stick with it* \-- using  EWS?  I\'ve had people ask me about
+    using Emacs for technical writing and/or coding, and start off well,
+    but move to another editor in two months.  The main reason is when
+    they want to do something with Emacs, can\'t figure out how, and
+    find a plugin (for Obsidian or VSCode, say) that does the thing they
+    want with no further setup or tweaking required.
+    -   A: I have had some good feedback from readers, but I cannot
+        attest to their personal success. The aim of EWS is to get
+        things working without the need for much config. However, Emacs
+        will never bny an easy point and click system such as the ones
+        you mention. 
+-   Q:When I was learining Emacs I bounced off it the first couple of
+    times, after reading Mastering Emacs and hearing it was the
+    tinkerers editor I got the right mental model to learn Emacs. Did
+    you have that? and what made it worth using and teaching others?
+    -   A: The best way to learn anything is to teach other people. So I
+        used EWS as a project to imporve my understanding of Emacs. Not
+        only did it force me to fully understand how things works, but
+        also develop new fucntions and packages where I saw a need.
+-   Q: I love using org to write prose. For me, I like writing the final
+    version of the text in org, and I prefer paper to brainstorm ideas
+    and draft things. How was the brainstorming experience and the
+    process to organize your thoughts to write the book using org-mode?
+    -   A: I do my brainstorning in a paper notebook. The first EWS idea
+        is a sketch in my notebook. In my weekly review I transfer notes
+        worth keeping to Denote (scan graphic notes). Writing by hand
+        has many advantages for idea generation. Denote is my
+        reporsitory, not a thinking tool.
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+-   Thanks for the great questions. Apologies for the technical glitch.
+
 
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