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“Outlines can help, but not if you begin with them. If you begin, instead, by writing down everything, by spewing out your ideas as fast as you can type, you will discover the answer to the first question: the fragments you have to work with are the various things you have just written.”
― Howard S. Becker, Writing for Social Scientists: How to Start and Finish Your Thesis, Book, or Article