{"blyg":"0.4","id":"3xw9w9krwwv6wre8wfd1g6bs49","kind":"fragment","origin":"https://blyg.rahulshankar.com/","page":"f/3xw9w9krwwv6wre8wfd1g6bs49/","author":{"name":"Rahul Shankar","url":"https://rahulshankar.com/"},"created":"2026-11-14T16:21:23Z","updated":"2026-11-14T16:23:31Z","version":1,"content_md":"Alright, so here’s trying out a blyg.\n\nA good place to start might be TK, which I hadn’t really understood before this. It comes from newsroom and editing practice: a way to mark something that still needs filling in, so you can keep writing.\n\nThis description from Matt Quirk, quoted by Steven Pressfield in [*The Magic of TK*](https://stevenpressfield.com/2016/05/the-magic-of-tk/), felt particularly apt:\n\n> *TK is an editing mark that means “to come” and is equivalent to leaving a blank or brackets in the text (It’s TK, not TC, because editorial marks are often misspelled intentionally so as not to confuse them with final copy: editors write graf and hed for paragraph and headline).*\n>\n> *Can’t figure out a character’s name? “EvilPoliticianTK.” Need to describe the forest? “He looked out over the SpookyForestDescriptionTK.”*\n\nI like the idea of giving the unfinished bit a name and moving on. Seems like a useful permission to start with here.","content_html":"<p>Alright, so here’s trying out a blyg.</p>\n<p>A good place to start might be TK, which I hadn’t really understood before this. It comes from newsroom and editing practice: a way to mark something that still needs filling in, so you can keep writing.</p>\n<p>This description from Matt Quirk, quoted by Steven Pressfield in <a href=\"https://stevenpressfield.com/2016/05/the-magic-of-tk/\"><em>The Magic of TK</em></a>, felt particularly apt:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>TK is an editing mark that means “to come” and is equivalent to leaving a blank or brackets in the text (It’s TK, not TC, because editorial marks are often misspelled intentionally so as not to confuse them with final copy: editors write graf and hed for paragraph and headline).</em></p>\n<p><em>Can’t figure out a character’s name? “EvilPoliticianTK.” Need to describe the forest? “He looked out over the SpookyForestDescriptionTK.”</em></p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>I like the idea of giving the unfinished bit a name and moving on. Seems like a useful permission to start with here.</p>\n","content_hash":"sha256:2d6cdb10643b7c00fc1e367bb13e4f9227876981008aacab51aee2c6456a32d3","media":[],"changelog":[{"version":1,"at":"2026-11-14T16:23:31Z","note":null}]}