Possible hack related to small wins. Many of the projects that I stopped got stopped part way through “continuing more of the same”. One was writing my Hazardous Guide to Words, and the other was researching how the internet works. Maybe I could work on one cohesive thing for longer if there was a significant victory and gear shift after a work. Like, if I was making a video game, “Yay, I finished making all the art assets, onto actual code” or something.
The target audience for Hazardous Guide is friends of yours, correct? (vaguely recall that)
A thing that normally works for writing is that after each chunk, I get to publish a thing and get comments. One thing about Hazardous Guide is that it mostly isn’t new material for LW veterans, so I could see it getting less feedback than average. Might be able to address by actually showing parts to friends if you haven’t
Ooo, good point. I was getting a lot less feedback form than then from other things. There’s one piece of feedback which is “am I on the right track?” and another that’s just “yay, people are engaging!” both of which seem relevant to motivation.
Possible hack related to small wins. Many of the projects that I stopped got stopped part way through “continuing more of the same”. One was writing my Hazardous Guide to Words, and the other was researching how the internet works. Maybe I could work on one cohesive thing for longer if there was a significant victory and gear shift after a work. Like, if I was making a video game, “Yay, I finished making all the art assets, onto actual code” or something.
The target audience for Hazardous Guide is friends of yours, correct? (vaguely recall that)
A thing that normally works for writing is that after each chunk, I get to publish a thing and get comments. One thing about Hazardous Guide is that it mostly isn’t new material for LW veterans, so I could see it getting less feedback than average. Might be able to address by actually showing parts to friends if you haven’t
Ooo, good point. I was getting a lot less feedback form than then from other things. There’s one piece of feedback which is “am I on the right track?” and another that’s just “yay, people are engaging!” both of which seem relevant to motivation.