Every two weeks I complain about how much I have to 'cover' for all the three or four days I didn't write, and rush through so much in a matter of week, causing me stress and sleeplessness because I'm not 'on time', and then things are back to the same grind like three weeks then. Sure, this one's different, it's holiday season, I'm taking it easy, I was at somebody else's house, there was no space literally to sit down and write in peace, and when I did start writing, it disturbed people trying to sleep. All of it fair. But this is just too much. I've been complaining about this for the last year, year-and-half already, this needs to stop.
The problem has been exacerbated by my decision to make the posts longer and meatier, though not necessarily better. Which means sitting down and writing a few posts is a bigger commitment than it used to be, there's need for larger chunks of time, periods that are not easy to come by during holidays, and they just break of the schedule.
It should be easy. Don't worry about the wordcount, if you're above a low low threshold of a few hundred short words, it's fine, as long as you're writing every day. If you've got your shit together, write for as long as you can, but if you cannot, just get something out. Instead of having your future self stressing over, and getting dozens of posts done in a course of a day or two. Even if it means poorly-written pieces, it's about the making of a habit, not writing a novel yet.
So, decision-time. I'm going to be writing shorter pieces if I'm running out of time, just for the heck of getting things out on the screen, rather than waiting for several days to get on my butt and just go through buttloads of writing.
Yupp.
So it has been decided.
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