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This is 100% true.
It is especially clear when you sit down to write out an idea or plan that you think is fully formed in your head. It turns out that you didn’t have it all thought out and the act of writing is where the important details get worked out.
Writing is thinking, diagramming is thinking, making any external expression of an idea is thinking.
Sitting around with a cool universe in your head is not thinking, it is feeling. Put it in a tangible communicable form, then okay you have turned it into thinking.
Yup. Also, writing is completely non-linear. It's not like grade school, where you take a blue book and a pencil and "write an essay" from beginning to end in an hour.
Hopefully they don't still teach writing the way I was taught in the 1930's.