Balancing Daily Writing and Life
It’s Day 2 of this writing experiment, and I am already starting to feel the incompatibility of taking on an online writing habit while also trying to build a new product.
It’s probably because both of these endeavors could be considered all-consuming activities by themselves, not to mention all of the regular adulting that needs to be taken care of as well.
I had a bunch of ideas for things to write about this morning, but don’t feel like I have enough time to develop them to my heart’s extent, so we’ll go for this short post to keep the train moving.
If I end up repetitively posting about the meta-activity of writing itself like I’ve done in the past, then we’ll probably need to come up with a new routine to develop the ideas I mentioned before into finished pieces.
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It’s crazy how much mental RAM get's taken up by setting out to write every day, and how much uneasiness creeps in about not being able to take care of other aspects of your life.
I want the work to be good, but I don’t want to keep on posting half-rattled thoughts on every thing, so there is some skill issue or routine that needs to be worked on here.
I suppose this is also why a lot of people settle on tweeting on X, since maybe it’s expected that your ideas are less-developed than when you post long-form.
The beauty of hitting send on this now though is that it will be done, a weight will be off my shoulders, and I can move on with my day knowing that maybe I helped someone else think.
I think my mantra for this challenge is to “just post through it.”
Hitting send feels like finishing a workout session. Getting started with this was extremely grueling, but it actually feels better having written something afterwards.