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This chapter argues that current problem-solving models of writing fail to capture the role writing has in constituting thought. It sketches a model of language production as a knowledge-constituting process, in which content can be generated by constraint satisfaction within a distributed semantic memory, and in which sequences of ideas can be produced by inhibitory feedback from preceding output. The model is then used to clarify: the distinctions between different forms of text production in writing, the relation between writing and discovery, and the interaction between explicit problem-solving processes and implicit knowledge-constituting processes during writing. It concludes by outlining the preliminary results of a study motivated by the model.