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lagilmanThe secret to finishing: open file. write. save. repeat every session.
Sometimes the hardest thing you'll do every day is open the damn file.
I was working with M this week, and she got a call from another architect she's working with on a project. I don't know what he was saying, but I distinctly heard her say "I don't know, just sit down and do it?"
Yes. Doesn't matter who you are, or what you're trying to get done: AiC is still a valid and effective means to the end (*pun apology*). Maybe that's why it's so difficult? Because if you don't open the file, if you don't sit down and do it, you still have possibility. Once the pen is uncapped, or the cursor blinks, you've narrowed your options down to two: write, or don't.
Mind you, I am a Procrastinator Supreme. There are things that I want to do that I haven't gotten around to doing yet, simply because I am at heart a lazy beast who needs a Staff, or at least a considerate cabana boy. But every day, I open the file. I stare at the words and think about what needs to come next. Often I write. Sometimes I just think, or do research, or read relevant passages in other peoples' books. But once the page is in front of me, more often than not the words will come. AiC engages muse.
I fervently, btw, disagree with Yoda. "Do or Do Not," yeah. But there is always try, because if you don't try, you can't surprise yourself, you can't exceed. But that's a thinking for another time.
Sometimes the hardest thing you'll do every day is open the damn file.
I was working with M this week, and she got a call from another architect she's working with on a project. I don't know what he was saying, but I distinctly heard her say "I don't know, just sit down and do it?"
Yes. Doesn't matter who you are, or what you're trying to get done: AiC is still a valid and effective means to the end (*pun apology*). Maybe that's why it's so difficult? Because if you don't open the file, if you don't sit down and do it, you still have possibility. Once the pen is uncapped, or the cursor blinks, you've narrowed your options down to two: write, or don't.
Mind you, I am a Procrastinator Supreme. There are things that I want to do that I haven't gotten around to doing yet, simply because I am at heart a lazy beast who needs a Staff, or at least a considerate cabana boy. But every day, I open the file. I stare at the words and think about what needs to come next. Often I write. Sometimes I just think, or do research, or read relevant passages in other peoples' books. But once the page is in front of me, more often than not the words will come. AiC engages muse.
I fervently, btw, disagree with Yoda. "Do or Do Not," yeah. But there is always try, because if you don't try, you can't surprise yourself, you can't exceed. But that's a thinking for another time.
