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Write something, post, repeat
Today I fly out of Cayman after a wonderful 17 days. A lot of my regular readers live here and I’ve had a number of people marvel at how I write daily and ask me my secrets.
Well, in over 600,000 words and well over 1,400 daily posts, I’ve actually written about this topic a few times, but today, inspired by Seth Godin, I have another thought to share, and it is about action and improvement through writing.
My post today is inspired by reading a recent post by Seth Godin (also a daily poster), who said:
Then improve it. Then write something else. Repeat this process until you have a post. Then post it. Then repeat this process.
There’s no such thing as writer’s block. There’s simply a fear of bad writing. Do enough bad writing and some good writing is bound to show up. And along the way, you will clarify your thinking and strengthen your point of view.
But it begins by simply writing something.
Seth, I agree that a secrete to writing is simple “write something”, but I feel you are still giving readers a “get out”, that they don’t have to publish, to share their writing until their post is “ready”.
For me, I sit down to write every day, then a thought will come to me from listening to someone or…
