"How do I know what I think until I read what I write?" quipped an author many years ago - probably E.M. Forster. Or Flannery O'Connor. Subscribe now for unlimited access. or signup to continue reading Holiday Offer All articles from our website & app The digital version of Today's Paper Crosswords, Sudoku and Trivia All other in your area The act of writing requires the ordering of facts and ideas into words, phrases, and eventually whole propositions. If all writing is, at core, an exercise in persuasion, the first target must be the author. Because of its deliberative process,...