Yesterday I told you I had a secret to help me keep writing. If you'll notice, the date on this post is not a new day. It's because I started it yesterday. When I was done with my post last night, I wrote a few lines of today's to get the ball rolling. That way, I'm not starting a new post -- I'm finishing one. It's a lot easier to edit/continue a post than to start one! When I'm done with this, I'll write a few lines of a post for tomorrow.
I don't have to write only one day in advance. I can write several. It's a way to get ideas down, even if I don't have the time or energy to flesh out each one. I wouldn't write too many, though. Otherwise it will start to look like a lot of unfinished work. The idea is not to overwhelm, but to nudge and prepare. If I had a ton of ideas in my head, such that they would take up a dozen entries, I would probably make a list of those ideas and not individual posts.
Nothing forbids me from writing something completely different when I get to the point. Nothing forces me to complete all the items in the list. I'm sure that I will never write everything I consider worthy, and I'm sure I'll write things that are pointless. If I worry about that, then I would be paralyzed and wouldn't write anything.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment