Starting failures

The Daily Drip

Most days, I have no idea what I'm going to write about.

Sometimes, something happens in my life, or a memory surfaces that I feel is important and relevant.

But I think most days, I just pop open my laptop and start writing.

There's not really a secret or trick. I just start writing about something.

Sometimes that takes me in a direction where I can publish a cohesive thought.

Sometimes it takes me in a weird direction and I have to make sense of many thoughts.

Sometimes it takes me nowhere for a while and I have to draw a connection to something that's relevant or useful.

Like right now!

I feel like the important thing for me is to just start. It's not that starting will guarantee that my outcome is going to be exactly what I wanted, but it will produce something that I can edit, revise, throw out, or recast.

Starting gives me something to work with. Starting give me momentum.

It's staring at a blank page that I'm trying to avoid.

No one can work with that.