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Writing (and reading) takes time is this how you want to spend it?
Writing, publishing, and reading are risky ventures. Lots of people are clamoring for our attention. So we daily must make decision in how we spend our time.
If you answer “yes” and proceed forward with reading this post, thank you in advance.
But if you say “no” I wouldn’t blame you. However, we will never know what you could have learned that would help you unless you stick with this until the end.
My writing process is this: every single day I write in a spiral notebook spilling out whatever thoughts are coming up at that moment.
You would be bored by the rehashing of complaints and frustrations I point out in these journals. When I re-read the journals, sometimes decades later, I usually think, “I don’t even remember this happening.”
Yet, something in me yearns to write and read, ever since I’ve been a child.
When I declared my major in college, I picked that now dead dinosaur of newspaper journalism. I worked on daily newspapers and built the skill of making something out of nothing.
(Can you go talk to the woman who grew the biggest pumpkin this year and make a 700 word article out of that?)
