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Too Late To Write
The Wrong: Ill-formed, barely edited.
Start the pomodoro timer. Let’s go.
The non-secret to writing an article in 25 minutes is not to expect it to be great at first, avoid using the back button, and expect a shit-ton of mistakes that might make it illegible to all but yourself.
Then what.
Next paragraph. Am I racing against the clock to type before realising I still have’t actually had an idea yet? What’s the idea here?
Plant hospital? Lessons from sailing? Whatever you are thinking about, two minutes have almost gone so you’d better decide on the topic NOW!
Sunshine streaming though the window, breeze blowing across my shoulders, the first warm days all year we only had to wait until June. The amount of work I need to get done in the remaining 23 days and the fact that I’d like to be celebrating at the end of it.
Don’t give up now, only three minutes have passed!
Keep on going, fight through the feeling that you are failing, you are writing, and you are not trying to write a GREAT article in 25 minutes, but we know we’re secretly hoping we do….
Isn’t there supposed to be some tension? Challenge overcome? What did I overcome recently? I sometimes feel like I have an abusive demon who…
