writing for writing’s sake
you’ve been posting daily for two straight months. worked on your blog design for hours at a time. changed posting schedule to connect more with readers. even found a voice you didn’t know was yours.
now you feel like you’re writing for the sake of writing.
not that that’s a bad thing. one of your unshared goals was to write 200 words per day, no matter the quality - you read from some writer that it builds the habit - and you’ve done more than that.
your words are not unpolished stream of consciousness. you draft, redraft, edit, obsess over the perfect adjective - whether or not there should be a hyphen, a period, or a comma. check for american english.
in short, you’re spending at least two hours a day on a post.
you work full-time, run errands in the big town, keep house. you read, game, study spanish. you’re stretching your soul thin.
what you want to do is align with your goals. you’ve been reading stirner, and realize that arbitrarily posting every day is just another ‘spook’ - a system that you’ve artificially created. it’s limiting you.
and while you’re achieving your goal of connecting to yourself and others, you eventually want to write novellas.
you’ll take it easy on yourself from now on. you’ve established the habit of writing, found a style that works for you.
from now on, post once or twice a week, probably a saturday. something deeper, more distilled. long-form posts where you can really push your boundaries and pour your soul into one idea.
‘the human is to be everything to the human, and the individual only man. but that is only possible when the spooks are dead.’ stirner - ‘the ego and its own’