Reps
Ten stories in, and it’s time to talk about what I’m doing. I’m building a habit of daily writing. I can’t call myself a writer if I don’t actually write. I haven’t got time for long writing sessions (someday!) so to borrow the analogy from earlier in the week: sips not gulps.
I aim to write and publish something short every day. The rules:
- No minimum word count or paragraph count
- Any theme or topic goes
- No fancy formatting, images, or embedded links
Just short text that I’m happy putting out into the world
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Cal Newport (yes, him again) talks about slow and deliberate practice. When trying to improve your skill and the quality of what you produce, he recommends finding the equivalent task to working the scales for a piano player. For me this is writing and editing every day. As i saw on someones video the other day, I’m doing reps*
Where possible I’ll create longer posts from the content or harness the momentum gained from writing everyday to create new material.
Currently the short posts are being posted here at Medium and on substack notes. Longer posts will be issued on my newsletter
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