Sometimes the thought is the title, often not. I usually have a bit of the middle, but no beginning or end. The reality is after capturing the original joyful thought that I only have 10 to 20% of the piece. This is a steep and satisfying part of the graph, but it quickly bends into our next phase.īuilding Depth, Giving Shape. Must write it down somewhere quickly because this idea is precious, it’s unique, and if I don’t write it down quickly, it will vanish from the universe forever. There are four distinct states within this graph: Joy is how much I love the work at this particular point in time. Elapsed time is the current amount of time spent on the the piece. The horizontal axis is elapsed time the vertical is joy. The thought that started this piece was this image of a graph that helped explained the reasons I am bad at finishing, and it looks like this: The Rands slush pile is deep with half-started ideas, and while a slush pile is a point of pride for me, I’m certain there are great half-written pieces that I will never finish. The majority of the time I will never finish the piece. The majority of the time I find whatever pen or keyboard is nearby and pound out 100+ words as quickly as I can. An exciting thought appears out of nowhere and not only is it intriguing, but I can instantly see how that thought could be expanded and built into an article. Many of my pieces I write start out like the morning when I began this article: an early morning caffeination session where I’m bouncing aimlessly around the Internet when I discover a thought.
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