Writing isn’t Just Writing

Key insight of Mise en place writing

What’s true for chefs is even more true for writers. The actual act of writing is only the final assembly stage of a longer, more involved process. Instead of grocery shopping (or stocking up), chopping, measuring, cutting, peeling, and slicing, we have ideation, research, peer review, audience testing, reframing, illustration, organization, and more.

The key insight of mise en place writing is that we should decouple writing from pre-writing.