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I've recently written in the region of 75,000 words.  That's quite a few for a physicist.  I'm pretty sure that, excluding my dissertation (which was around 10,000 words so still a long way off) the longest previous piece of written work I've completed in the last 10 years is 2000 words, maybe 5000 at a push.

 

I thought I'd share a few of the things I learnt as I wrote, the things I did, how I did them and to a certain extent why.  I don't expect this to be a particularly long post [edit: turns out it's longer than I expected] but hopefully interesting to those about to start writing some long piece of work.  I'm not saying these tips will be good for everyone, but I found them helpful.

 

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