Writing
To come up with new ideas, you have to have space to be messy, to procrastinate, and to let your mind wander and free-associate. But there needs to be a balance. You eventually need to channel it into something concrete, or you won’t produce anything.
Dasha Nekrasova • Jon Rafman and Dasha Nekrasova on the Horror We Call Life
6) You know a paragraph is ready to ship when there's nothing left to remove. It's like a Jenga tower. The entire thing should collapse if you remove something.
Research shows that the more you create, the more creative you become.
Anne-Laure Le Cunff • How to Build a Better Writing Habit
15 rules for blogging, and my current streak
interconnected.org
This is what I do for everything I post:
- Write all of my thoughts on a subject.
- Argue against those ideas.
- Explore different angles until I’m sick of it.
- Leave it for a few days or years, then repeat those steps.
- Hate how messy these thoughts have become.
- Reduce them to a tiny outline of the key points.
- Post the outline. Trash the rest.
Brian Koberlein • P&B: Derek Sivers – Manu
Because you have shielded your writing time, you just need to sit down and open a new document. All of the mental energy you would have used to figure out when and where to write can be saved for the actual writing.