I am going to write every day for a very short amount of time each day. Right now I am writing for 2 1⁄2 minutes, but some days I’ll write for as much as five minutes. But I will never write for more than five minutes – that is to say I cannot be putting words on paper for more than five minutes, but I can and expect myself to think throughout the day about what words exactly I want to say when I am putting words down on paper. This way I will be spending only a very short on time doing the most bottlenecked part of writing, but when I am thinking about writing throughout the day, I will do the hard part of deciding what those words will be, since thinking time is much less bottlenecked for me right now.
Edit to add: Not everything I write in this process will show up on LW. Probably the vast majority won’t. Be I do anticipate several shortforms will come of this, and I intend that multiple top level posts here will also come from it.
While I do think there’s benefit to get from writing more, one problem is that I oftentimes write a lot, but don’t put in enough time to stitch together several pieces of work and compile things into a larger and coherent final product. I should probably figure out a framework and workflow that enables me to do this more.
I am going to write every day for a very short amount of time each day. Right now I am writing for 2 1⁄2 minutes, but some days I’ll write for as much as five minutes. But I will never write for more than five minutes – that is to say I cannot be putting words on paper for more than five minutes, but I can and expect myself to think throughout the day about what words exactly I want to say when I am putting words down on paper. This way I will be spending only a very short on time doing the most bottlenecked part of writing, but when I am thinking about writing throughout the day, I will do the hard part of deciding what those words will be, since thinking time is much less bottlenecked for me right now.
Edit to add: Not everything I write in this process will show up on LW. Probably the vast majority won’t. Be I do anticipate several shortforms will come of this, and I intend that multiple top level posts here will also come from it.
While I do think there’s benefit to get from writing more, one problem is that I oftentimes write a lot, but don’t put in enough time to stitch together several pieces of work and compile things into a larger and coherent final product. I should probably figure out a framework and workflow that enables me to do this more.