It's been a full week since I've written a Butch Wonders entry. Often when I have something I have to (or want to) write and I haven't really been doing it, my brain does this (click to see a bigger version): I'm learning to write a little faster and get stuff out there immediately. This is the "prototype early and often" principle (in design thinking parlance), or the "fail, fail again, fail better" principle (in Samuel Beckett / Zadie Smith parlance), or the "brain crack" principle (in Ze Frank parlance).
...Anyone else ever experience anything like the flow chart above?
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Rae
9/11/2012 10:17:55 am
Yeah um uh wait...what!
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Oh please, I even wrote a whole post on this! At this point if I post once a week that was a good week. I also had to force myself to stop caring about vanity stats like views and write about what *I* wanted to write, not what I thought would get me a popularity boost. And give myself permission to breathe - if I'm not inspired / have better things to do / need some time to myself, then I take it with no (or little) guilt.
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I've heard it referred to as "perfect is the enemy of good". As in, some of us are so focussed on making something perfect that we never 'finish' anything or think it's 'ready', so we don't produce, thus depriving all the world of our brilliance. I'm trying to do the same thing - just write when I can, even when I don't have a great idea or when I don't think it's going well, and publish less-polished stuff more often.
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KJenkins
9/12/2012 02:23:53 am
Yes. In everything I do as of late.
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oh yeah, definitely. I saw another diagram the other day, but it was more positive... there was actually a path that eventually led to writing. I put all kinds of barriers in my way to blogging, or writing in general. I worry it won't be interesting to anyone else, I worry I'm not doing a good enough job of expressing myself, I worry that I'll say something wrong and offend people. Too much damned worrying. A blog is a place to do your thing and as long as we're not trying to make a living off it, we should give ourselves some flexibility in terms of frequency of posts as well as subjects.
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Ed
9/12/2012 08:04:18 pm
The other night, the Beloved Kitties knocked a bag of flour over on the counter. They walked in it, then jumped to the floor to dance Irish reels across the whole of the kitchen.
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8/19/2013 04:27:33 pm
The flowchart that you given is very interesting and it gives a brief idea between the relationship between fun and work. According to me writing is hard because it need lots of creativity and the passion for it. Thank you.
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