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Notes to Self
Along the Ray
..musings on old-school-web livelihoods & creative pursuits
In a side note about pop-up newsletters, Craig Mod wrote:
With most creative work, the trick is to focus on habit formation. Somewhat counterintuitively, don’t aspire to be someone who writes a book — don’t be a sucker waiting for “inspiration” — instead aspire to be someone who writes on schedule. Books naturally flow from rigorous writing habits.
Very wise way of looking at it and not just in book writing…
As in:
Don’t aspire to be a newsletter writer
Don’t aspire to be a blogger
Don’t aspire to be a gardener, etc.
Just do the thing and do it regularly, at least for a while and see where it takes you.
The universe responds to action and it’s how it can — subtly or outrageously — steer you in ways unexpected to what you were looking for all along.1
Something else I’ve gleaned from Craig’s advice:
Don’t aspire for subscribers
Don’t aspire for readers
Don’t aspire for comments, etc.
Just hunker down and do the thing! And please make sure it’s something you enjoy.
In my case I’ve waited far too long for the “inspiration” he speaks of rather than hunkering down and doing something. Hence this very blog — an act of creating — and seeing how the universe responds.)↩︎
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