Look who’s back at it.

25minutesaday
2 min readApr 11, 2024

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Giving myself permission to start again, in the smallest ways.

Photo by Serge Taeymans on Unsplash
  1. “I want to be a writer,” I said. “I’m working on a book,” I started to tell people.
  2. It is an easy thing to talk about writing. It is a hard to actually sit down and write.
  3. Is it a ‘cop-out’ to write about writing? A ‘cliche?’ An unnecessary addition to the abundance of frustrated-self referential-blog posts complaining about the curse of the ‘blank screen.’
  4. I am listening to high-tempo pop music, loudly. I change the song every 20 seconds. It is a delicate balance between trying to drown out the anxious critic in my head, versus giving myself space to think.
  5. I don’t think that the sentence above is a good sentence. I am going to keep writing.
  6. Word. Word. Wordwordwordwordword.
  7. And breathe (and breathe).
  8. I recently moved to an apartment in a new city. A much quieter, more spacious city than the one I was in before. From my window where I am sitting now, I see many trees.
  9. I moved because I wanted to be somewhere with more quiet and space and trees, where I could focus on creative work. I have since binge-watched two reality TV shows on Netflix, gained three pounds, and absolutely avoided any progress on the 896354897 projects I fantasized completing.
  10. I am losing motivation already. I am going to publish this, as is, and call it a Win.

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