answer:I really do need to be more diligent about editing my Fluther answers; I find way too many stupid errors after the editing window has closed. It takes me so damned long to crank out an answer that I’m usually just sick of it once I’ve finished and have no appetite for reworking it. I do tend to put a lot of forethought into the text prior to committing it to paper/screen. I’m a lousy typist; I want to be pretty sure that all that hunting and pecking won’t be wasted, so I try to get it right in my head first. Most of the post-production editing I do involves inserting paragraph breaks where I see that I’ve birthed a massive wall of text. As for what that mental, pre-typing editing process is like, I first get some feel for whom I’m addressing the words to. If it’s a Fluther answer, am I talking to a specific person, or is it more of a “to whom it may concern” type of response? If I’m answering one of your questions, @wundayatta , I’ll feel free to go into as much detail as I want because I know you’ll actually read it and will appreciate the effort. If it’s intended more for the collective at large, I try to pare it down to the essentials because jellies in general tend to read right past anything over a few lines. Once I’ve got an idea of the listener(s) and what I think their prior knowledge or position might be, then I just set about trying to build a verbal bridge from that position over to mine. I have to first try to see things from their perspective before I can see how to lead them to my vantage point. I don’t expect anyone to abandon their perspective for mine, but if they’ve taken the trouble to ask for my perspective, than I’m willing to show them how to get there.