Here's a theory, alright, go with me where you can. What if the reason I'm not writing so well with the work writing is because I already write about 2k words in there, about 1k-1.5k words in here, and several hundred to thousand words elsewhere, spare? Oh and the website too. What if my brain or fingers have only a certain about of 'word output' and I'm totally exhausting my daily supply by the time I even think about writing for the work thing.
I know it's ridiculous, and that's what it probably is. No question. But. Think about this for a moment. I'm writing 2k a day at work, for 30-40 minutes for a set of writing that gets me nowhere. Like it's purely therapeutic, more of a random stream of consciousness than even what I have here. And this too is therapeutic obviously. Initially the idea was to just get the habit of writing daily going. I've already sort of started that in all these years I think. And multiple times I've asked myself what it would take to stop writing just for the sake of it, for starting a habit, and start writing with a purpose? Maybe my problem with work writing is that so much of time and energy is consumed by this nonsense bullshit writing that purposeful creation gets no attention or time.
Same for writing here. What if instead of writing these pieces which honestly are just pagefillers or self-therapy at best, were abandoned in favor of more professional projects, more serious essays. Obviously I couldn't publish them here, but I could surely publish them somewhere else, and perhaps I could post links to the work on this blog to remind myself that I'm still writing significantly? Because this is not recordkeeping, this is not habit-building, this is not even...therapeutic anymore. I'm writing just because. Which is fine, but maybe I want to move to the next step of self help and productivity?
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