One thing I learnt from reading all sorts of blogs, posts, notes, and books of this genre is it really gets down to ironically “just doing it”.
And people know that. - they desire inspiration or a more dignified purpose to start, but once it starts running, progress fuels itself. You need to know when to stop looking for that inspiration, because nothing substitutes for action.
Personally I like to employ a combination of the **Hemingway Hack** + Self-Awareness — when I **start** to feel the ignition, I immediately promise myself to just 10 minutes of work. Sometimes you need to put a ceiling on that time so you don’t wait for something forever before starting though.
Once I do start, the 10 minutes, more often than not become 30 minutes, an hour, or more.
This is great advice on how to address the current environment! I've been taking many of these steps in my daily life and it has been a huge improvement. I've set daily time limits on social media apps and it has significantly reduced my time wasted on scrolling, just to waste time. I've been reading more books and focusing on my health and time with family, and I am much happier for it.
You're probably in the minority, sadly. So many people are addicted to scrolling. I've been there. But the fact you've realised it, put up limits and are now pushing ahead with positive practices instead, means you're on the right path.
And as you said, you're feeling much happier because of it.
Roscoe, thank you for sharing your unfiltered thoughts, I know you're not in a good place right now and that will have an impact on anyone's writing.
I've often thought my writing immortality could potentially live on a bit longer with my kids looking to reflect on their old dad long past looking at his blog - that's assuming blogging hasn't gone the way of the telegram and my words have some sort of online presence.
Other way is to think about your impact, because you certainly have (okay I can't talk for others but reading you from way back has been influential enough to change my relationship ever since).
So rather than think about your writing living on after your death, think about the value your words are giving in the here and now!
I hope you keep writing in some sort of sense online, even if it's a scaled down approach so you can focus on other writing projects/personal life, either way I wish you nothing but the best and to focus on pursuing what interests you - personally I think if you keep leaning into what's on your mind you'll achieve your goal of making your reader feel something.
One thing I learnt from reading all sorts of blogs, posts, notes, and books of this genre is it really gets down to ironically “just doing it”.
And people know that. - they desire inspiration or a more dignified purpose to start, but once it starts running, progress fuels itself. You need to know when to stop looking for that inspiration, because nothing substitutes for action.
Personally I like to employ a combination of the **Hemingway Hack** + Self-Awareness — when I **start** to feel the ignition, I immediately promise myself to just 10 minutes of work. Sometimes you need to put a ceiling on that time so you don’t wait for something forever before starting though.
Once I do start, the 10 minutes, more often than not become 30 minutes, an hour, or more.
I'd never heard of Hemingway Hack so this combination is extremely useful.
Thank you for sharing it.
I am going to give this a go.
This is great advice on how to address the current environment! I've been taking many of these steps in my daily life and it has been a huge improvement. I've set daily time limits on social media apps and it has significantly reduced my time wasted on scrolling, just to waste time. I've been reading more books and focusing on my health and time with family, and I am much happier for it.
You're probably in the minority, sadly. So many people are addicted to scrolling. I've been there. But the fact you've realised it, put up limits and are now pushing ahead with positive practices instead, means you're on the right path.
And as you said, you're feeling much happier because of it.
I'm so glad to hear that :)
Roscoe, thank you for sharing your unfiltered thoughts, I know you're not in a good place right now and that will have an impact on anyone's writing.
I've often thought my writing immortality could potentially live on a bit longer with my kids looking to reflect on their old dad long past looking at his blog - that's assuming blogging hasn't gone the way of the telegram and my words have some sort of online presence.
Other way is to think about your impact, because you certainly have (okay I can't talk for others but reading you from way back has been influential enough to change my relationship ever since).
So rather than think about your writing living on after your death, think about the value your words are giving in the here and now!
I hope you keep writing in some sort of sense online, even if it's a scaled down approach so you can focus on other writing projects/personal life, either way I wish you nothing but the best and to focus on pursuing what interests you - personally I think if you keep leaning into what's on your mind you'll achieve your goal of making your reader feel something.