writing-shape

To turn raw notes into a publishable article, you provide a markdown file of fragments and engage in a guided shaping session that drafts candidate openings, grows the text paragraph by paragraph, and selects appropriate formatting like prose, lists, or tables.

Drafting an article incrementally from a markdown pile involves appending shaped paragraphs to a separate document while preserving the original input as read-only, enforcing explicit decisions on structure and format at each step of the writing process.

Yes, conversational drafting structures rough drafts by using a grilling-style session that argues about formatting at each step, pushes for clear reasoning and strong transitions, and allows you to select or hybridize candidate openings to define the thesis.

Yes, the article shaping process preserves your original notes by treating the source markdown file as read-only input and appending the incrementally grown article paragraphs to a completely separate document.

To choose the right format for each paragraph, the shaping session guides you to fit the argument by selecting between prose, lists, tables, callouts, or quotes as you grow the piece paragraph by paragraph.