No. 101 The "Writer Who Doesn't Write" Trajectory of Sadness
No. 101 • 12/4/2024
It's kinda sorta true, right?
The "Writer Who Doesn't Write" Trajectory of Sadness
1. The more you read, the more ideas you have.
You're curious. You're excited by interesting ideas. You read your daily feeds. People say stuff, and it further ignites your curiosity and excitement. This is a good thing.
2. The more ideas you have, the more backlogged you feel.
But, because you're a writer who doesn't write, this curiosity and excitement backs up. Without a mode of expression, offloading what you think, you start to feel overwhelmed. There's just too much to keep track of.
3. The more backlogged you feel, the less ideas you're willing to have.
Your deep psyche jumps in and says, "Hey! Since having cool ideas without a way to express them makes you feel bad, just stop having cool ideas! No need to punish yourself." Now, things that previously got your juices flowing no longer flow the juices.
4. The less ideas you have, the more you feel not interesting.
So, you've cut off the juice, but now you're kinda not really curious or excited about anything, which of course leads to you feeling uninteresting. You say things like, "I don't have interesting things to say." Which, I don't know, maybe is now kinda true?
5. The less interesting you feel, the more you tell yourself, "No one cares what I think."
But, self deprecation will only take you so far. It's not you. It's them. Maybe if anyone cared what you thought, you'd take the time to think about things.
6. The more you tell yourself "No one cares what I think," the less you're inclined to write.
So, now you're stuck. You're a writer who should be writing but you don't because:
- You didn't have a mode of expression
- You felt overwhelmed from the backlog of ideas
- You stopped having ideas to feel less backlogged
- Your lack of ideas made you feel not interesting
- Your feeling not interesting convinced you other people found you not interesting
- So, why write when you're an uninteresting sap who doesn't go to shows, doesn't read cool books, and doesn't have anything interesting to say?
Here's the catch --> All of that is a lie based on a habitual thought pattern based on a lack of motivation based on a lack knowledge management and writing resources.
The course I'm leading in January is intended to help you interrupt this trajectory, to help writers who should be writing actually write. It's methodical, scaleable, flexible, and inspiring. It starts with the belief that you're a nascent writer. One in need of some "skillful means."
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Love you,
Bob
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