Excitement is helpful a helpful vibe to produce to. It makes working on a project more fun.Sometimes it can even feel more fun than having fun in the more traditional sense: for example going out for margaritas or jetskiing.
But after a few hundred days of writing daily I've recently been able to see a pattern. I think it's because the environment that I'm writing in now is so different than it has been the past month that I'm able to see this, but here's what happened:
I came to write about something I was excited about. I tell people who want to form a writing habit that the key is to just write what they are thinking about in their heads already rather than holding exaggerated expectations of what they ought to write.
This is great advice for people who are either not writing at all or are writing regularly but dread it. I've adhered to the just-write-whats-in-your-head for the most part the few hundred days, but lately I've also been exercising, occasionally, the practice of not just writing what's in my head, but deciding before writing what it is that I want to write. What do I want to convey? What do I want to make the reader feel? Who do I want that reader to be? After deciding such I'll actually stick to trying to accomplish the goals, rather than just letting my brain dump out information into writing.
I recommend this technique for people who are in a similar boat to me. That being:
But after a few hundred days of writing daily I've recently been able to see a pattern. I think it's because the environment that I'm writing in now is so different than it has been the past month that I'm able to see this, but here's what happened:
I came to write about something I was excited about. I tell people who want to form a writing habit that the key is to just write what they are thinking about in their heads already rather than holding exaggerated expectations of what they ought to write.
This is great advice for people who are either not writing at all or are writing regularly but dread it. I've adhered to the just-write-whats-in-your-head for the most part the few hundred days, but lately I've also been exercising, occasionally, the practice of not just writing what's in my head, but deciding before writing what it is that I want to write. What do I want to convey? What do I want to make the reader feel? Who do I want that reader to be? After deciding such I'll actually stick to trying to accomplish the goals, rather than just letting my brain dump out information into writing.
I recommend this technique for people who are in a similar boat to me. That being:
- You have a writing habit now. There's no more question or pondering of whether you're going to write that day.
- You don't dread writing. it doesn't feel like a chore.
I caught myself this morning about to write something about a discussion of how the small
What I really ought to do is use that excitement, and turn it into an actual product. In this case this post is the product. I hope you enjoyed it. If you like it please go enjoy your day like a boss.
