creative process thoughts
Normally, I would take my time and polish up a post like this. However, Pink's Done over perfect has me thinking that it's better to publish it as-is. Perhaps that juxtaposition succinctly describes the duality of polishing mud balls.
Could one or more of these talking points inspire you to write, similar to how Kami describes in Let's trade blogposts!? I think the world would be better off with more inspired, imperfect writing circulating within it.
Inspired by Matter vs. Spirit's On blogging on blogging:
- Embrace fluidity in writing modes: product and practice, within and socialized, diaristic and essayistic.
- Explore writers' roles and context.
- Respect your infused value in your work as well as others' interpretations.
- Harness the glue of personality-infused, people-shaped storytelling.
- Fulfill multiple roles through your life whether as a human, writer, or any other actor.
- See how your execution can take multiple forms.
- As profession, think products developed, refined, and sold.
- As a practice, think skills learned, practiced, and applied.
- Think about internal self-expression, catharsis, or personal growth.
- Think about external communal engagement, shared experiences, or connection.
Inspired by Dylan's Posting isn’t the problem. This is.:
- Starting can be dead easy or impossible. It may be easier than you think during the motion or afterward.
- Thinking before acting might not prevent course correction in the moment.
- Years later, look back and cherish the brilliance you sculpted from nothing.
- If you think an account doesn't benefit you, consider the exception to the rule.
- Experiment with all the styles: professional account, personal diary, generic brand, etc.
- Learn what doesn't work for you as a process of elimination to inform what will work until the ground shifts. Then, repeat.
- Listen to your heart, taste, and inner child.
- The impacts of your words and pieces are beasts unto themselves.
- Treating digital artifacts as products engages marketplace metaphors and user-centric thinking enough to cosign the exercise.
- How can you bridge the gap between you and your ideal co-creator? Where, when, why, how should they find you? What should they find of you?
- Being your own follower and recommender, you can always improve on both fronts.
- Be proud of how far you made it. Be excited about how far you have to go.
- 100 is the bar. Meet it to show yourself and others that it's possible. Pivot or deload upon burnout.
Inspired by Kavabun's I don't care.:
- Keep up what you find fun.
- Quality is the daughter of quantity and consistency. The sign and scale of said quality depends on your execution.
- Return the favor of others inspiring you to write by sharing your novel insights and making inroads.
- Cultivate interest to exchange for goodwill from the world within and around you.
- Appreciate how feedback loops cycle through production and consumption: reading inspires writing, gameplay inspires development, etc.
- Lower your standards.
- Reorient toward favorable destinations.
- Have fun. Make things fun. Do what you like and enjoy.
Inspired by Sam's My precious, precious ideas!:
- Disregard ownership, acquire efficacy.
- Publish what you would accept being shared by anyone.
Inspired by Piyush's Narrative is All You Need (?):
- Build narrative worlds to inhabit over just products.
- Sell more than just features.
- Position yourself by benefits, creating expansive, attractive, and habitable vibe shifts.
- Underpromise, overdeliver.
- Read the room.
- Regularly refresh your narrative to stay afloat.
- Think multiple phases ahead.
- How could this framework apply to more personal realms: everyday life, creative expression, or play?
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