I’ve been trying to figure out a good ‘routine’ for writing. I don’t think that’s going to happen. I need to be realistic about what ‘routine’ means to me.
I’m not much of a ‘list’ person, though I should be. When I start each day, I feel paralyzed by all of the stuff I have to get off of my plate. From website development to adwords campaign managment and of course keeping the day-to-day job moving along. I’ve got a couple hundred items (if I broke the list down into its component parts) that I need to complete. Writing here is one of the items - in fact, it’s many items. When I come up with something I’d like to share, I make a note on one of my lists or I start the post and save it as a draft. Then I can come back and write/edit/finish the post later.
Lately though, it seems as though my ideas are outpacing my finished products. I’m just now getting a grip on how to handle this situation. Basically, I need to focus on whittling down the drafts into finished pieces. I can see the benefit in this, but it also pulls me away from jotting down new ideas. A classic catch-22.
So, here I am, out of bed, writing. Rather than laying there, staring at the ceiling with all of these ideas, it made more sense to get up and write about writing all these ideas down. See? Doesn’t that makes sense.
The point I’m trying to make is that if you don’t just get up and do something, you’ll probably never get it done. So go ahead, make a list, write something, make something, DO something. You’ll be glad you did. And if you can figure out how to monetize whatever you just did, all the better.
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