The key to prolific writing, part 4: how to start yourself up again after a break?
This is one the hardest things ever. While I was blogging daily it was easy; you somehow get into this rhythm of pumping out text everyday and, at some point, you’ve hit your groove. Taking my break really made little sense to my brain whatsoever, as day-after-day, I kept on writing draft-after-draft, while I was meant to take a break!!!
Luckily-unluckily I eventually gave that up…
Now, I don’t actually thing there is any great secret to starting up again. It’s going to be a bitch, we all know that, and we can all remember that first workout in the gym / at home, after taking much-too-long-a break. Muscle Ache!!! Which in blogging-terms, translates to brain-ache or have-I written-sh*t-today?-ache. I know that, writing this, I will check back over and over and over again to see if it made any sense.
No, the real secret to starting up again is just… to never stop! Or, to continue like you never stopped and have faith in the imagined fact that someday that brain-ache is going to pass… even if it doesn’t feel like that right now.
See you tomorrow, Tech IT Easians!
Vincent
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Did you come up with “The key to profilic writing, part 3 1/2: How to keep a break.” during your “break”? =)
Part 4, you mean? The idea of a “break,” is something that I’ve come up with from a very young age. I’m by nature (though it’s less apparent so today) a lazy person, but during those “lazy” periods, it’s when I come up with most creative ideas.
“The Now Habit” is also about this idea of doing your sh*t *now* and rewarding yourself with free time, which often refuels and inspires to do new sh*t.