[30/30] A Cliché Reflection
Alright, it's day 30/30 of the "just write" experiment.
An experiment of daily writing and publishing for 30 days. I am doing the cliché thing by writing about my experience on the 30th day itself.
Well, it's a cop out for actually having to write something today, but I think it's worth reflecting on it.
Here's some useless stats
12631 Words (including this post)
1038 Sentences
11 Posts about work and career
9 "Emotional" posts
4 Posts written and edited on my phone as I was traveling
1 Post gone horribly wrong (published on the wrong newsletter, because I was rushing)
P.S. I always wanted to do that, to pull stats from something
When I first started this experiment with Sumaer Jolly , I had many thoughts about what I wanted to write. I wanted to write about coffee. About fitness. About finances. Because the goal of this experiment was to write things outside computational design. I'd been so used to writing for a purpose that I wanted to write about all the other things in my life.
And in a way I did that. But I didn't get to write about coffee or fitness. Instead I wrote about how I felt and my thoughts at the time. Because it turns out writing about coffee feels absurd when I am thinking about [[Career]]. It turns out, I didn't have the headspace to write about anything else. So, what I written was always a reflection of what was happening around me.
I's been great to have a place to write these thoughts down. A lot of it has helped me think through some of them.
Like writing Fool thought me a lot about why I am insecure about driving. [[Reminder]] actually made me tear up as I wrote it but it was a strong reason on my current path to independence. Controlling the itinerary made me think through what it would be like to actually own my time.
And there was "fun" pieces too. Like Fear was a piece that I'd been wanting to write for long time now. I played Subnautica about 3 years ago but I just had no place to publish it.
I really like this format. Because my thoughts now feel like they have a place to live. Even if it was sometimes a burden to keep up with the daily deadline. I've always loved doing "morning pages" but writing with a goal to publish is even more effective. It keeps what I write about intentional and I can look back at them and tie them to a specific theme / topic.
So, I am going to keep going for as long as it's possible.
I might lower it to 3x a week instead of everyday if I think it's too much of a time suck. And I am going to write some mini-essays to understand certain topics.