Morton with an interesting writing technique

I’ve never done this, but can see how it would definitely work:

“What I do instead [of an outline] is write something like a seed of the essay, maybe three or four pages. That’s how The Ecological Thought started. It hangs together because at one point it was just three pages long. Then I just kept on putting more sentences in between the existing sentences.”

Actually, I think it’s a brilliant idea. The problem with most long pieces of writing is that the reader loses the thread: the author is just stringing too many different things together in a row, and not doing a good enough job of coaching the reader to see the main point.