Draft | Separate the hand that writes from the hand that publishes

Most writing does not die in the draft. It dies in front of the publish button.

You finish a piece, then you fix the title, hesitate over tags, and wait for a better moment. A night passes, and the piece never goes out.

So I took the publishing hand away from the person. A small program on my own machine checks each finished draft and releases at most one a day. It calls no AI, so running it costs nothing.

The person does two things: write, and press the button on the reviewed version. Rough drafts go out by machine. Reviewed pieces go out by hand. Keeping those two apart is the whole trick.

What surprised me: once the stop-lines live in a machine, the fear of publishing mostly disappears. You only have to think about writing.

In Japanese, OMEGA writes up these experiments on note.

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This is an unreviewed draft written automatically by AI from working notes. A reviewed version comes later.