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I Don’t Write 1,000 Words a Day But Here’s How I Plan To
Repetitive strain injury here I come
If I didn’t write most days for a week I’d spend the next week emotionally skewed. Whilst I pretty much stopped the game of publishing every day, writing every day is entirely different. Writing every day is consciously and honestly spending time on the craft that gives to you.
Publishing every day, just to publish every day, is giving someone else the power. The motivation shifts. You’re a slave to the algorithm and that’s not the aim here. Don’t get me wrong it can be nice to be a slave to the algorithm but that’s not why I write.
Separating those two things is quite interesting really. It’s interesting because I hadn’t realised they could be separated until I broke them in half and realised they both exist by themselves.
Moving forwards I plan to write 1,000 words a day. Not publish every day but write 1,000 words a day. Those 150 words just took me 2 minutes to write so at this rate, if I write about 15 minutes a day then I’ll have hit my target. 15 minutes is nothing. Here’s how I plan to write 1,000 words a day.
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