Stop Sending Half Written Emails

I’m slowly plowing through the backlog that is my Google reader list, catching up on a bunch of stuff.  Dan Dantow, who writes the handy writing tips blog Word Wise, shares a little hack for email to prevent sending something too early - write you email in reverse.  Craft the body, then the subject, then pick the recipients. This has a number of advantages, two of which be the subject will probably be better, and you won’t send it before you’re done. I can’t count the number of times Outlook has sent an email before I was done with it, usually by some inadvertent key combination. This little trick gives you a safeguard since Outlook (or any email program for that matter) can’t send an email without someone to send it to.

Flip, Don’t Flop [Word Wise]