Starting Anew

The beginning of a new writing challenge

Published on: 2/3/2024

Wanderer above the Sea of Fog (1818).

I have writer’s block. Or as Steven Pressfield would say, Resistance is making me its bitch. I’m actually not sure if Pressfield would ever word it exactly like that, but that’s what’s been happening for the past couple years. So today I’m going to make a deal with myself. I’m going to plan to write and publish a post everyday. In order to try and avoid early burnout, I’m going to structure the effort in a way that gives me minimal excuses to bitch out. This is what I’m thinking:

  1. Write one blog post everyday.
  2. Select one topic for each post.
  3. Write a minimum number of words for each post.
  4. Each week I will increase the number of words in each post. For example, this week I will write at least 50 words per post. Next week I’ll write 75 for each post.

Hopefully this will help me get over my writer’s block. I need to quit being a bitch.

Word goal: 50
Total words: 164 ✅