Rachel Yang is a studying to be a research scientist. She’s currently a Ph.D. student at MIT but has already worked on some projects leading to breakthroughs. She tells the story of the first such project when she was an undergraduate.
The project itself was a success. After some trial and error she managed to produce the desired result. That’s when the problem began. Her professor asked her to write up her results as a research paper. She panicked. She was perfectly confident while doing her research but was convinced that she couldn’t write intelligibly.
What she discovered was that writing was a lot like doing science. You could think of it as trial and error. You produce a first draft and fix the obvious problems with it. You iterate on that process until you reach a satisfactory product. Just like doing science.
This seems to me to be an appropriate story for Irreal because many in our industry hate writing and feel they aren’t good at it. As Yang explains, it just a matter of mindset. Writing is not unlike what you do everyday in your job: make a first stab, improve on that, iterate.
Update : Added link to Yang’s post.