...Where I Got Stuck Last Time
A monologue or essay shouldn’t be that hard for me. Blathering on one topic for max 20 minutes read. That’s all an essay is, 20 minutes. After that, it is attention span losing… and bordering on a chapter in a book. But what takes 20 minutes to read, might take 20 hours to write! Ha! Therein lies the problem.
Writing something “content” that’s engaging for more than 5 minutes, more than 300 words seem to be a challenge these days for me. Because I am swamped (AGAIN) with other stuff. But if it’s really important to me, won’t I find the time? The priority would be higher than socializing, learning German, or cooking/eating?? Where do I find 20 hours in a week? Weekends? Nights?? I really would need it, like a fetus, to feed the damn thing, so it grows. But just as important as exercising, my writing has to be. So, I definitely can’t exercise 20 hours a week!!
Maybe my themes are too tightly close together and that’s why I don’t feel like I achieve anything from week to week? Next year, I should have themes, OK, but get this, do them over TWO weeks, with a short “interim report” in the inbetween week. Hmmm…. good idea. I think I can find 20 hours within 2 weeks…
I guess I used to write my philosophy essays in 12-16 hours or so, with some prior research the days before (always worked better for me doing an all-nighter on philosophy… ) Just now I am older, I can plan and schedule my writing blocks better. There also is the aspect of deadlines. Writing content for me is all good, but you know, I need the external deadline. I wonder where I can find this… some one not related and definitely NOT a friend! Client maybe too high level, but something impersonal like a client…
There was a “Do or Die” type of writing website some where, I have to re-find it. I wonder if that will work for me… until next week!
