How the Sausage Gets Made
So a quick entry to tell you how this sausage is made. Right now I’m about seven to ten posts ahead. I can’t remember without checking, but that’s roughly it.
What I’m trying to do is remove the dull, low anxiety of posting every day — or basically every day. (Who knows if this will actually be an everyday thing?) The point is: that’s why I stay ahead. If I have something interesting to say, I just say it and schedule it for as-many days in the future.
It’s the same thing as the going-downstairs songwriting thing: when I’m ready to do it, I just kind of have faith that I’ll get to the point. I know what I want to say, I know the point I’m aiming at, and I don’t overthink it. I just start talking. (I do voice transcription so it’s always preserved in my voice). It's really is a lot like songwriting.
Sure, a bit repetitive if you read yesterday’s post, but you do have to beat the drum on this stuff. One thing I learned from songwriting is that not everyone is going to listen to all your songs, so essentially, if you’re writing a song like you’ve already written fifty of them, almost nothing in the world could matter less — it will come out different. The next entry will come out different. That’s the greater point: you have to be doing something and have faith that the thing is going to work.
And the best part about being far enough ahead is that I don’t have to hit publish. I’ve done that several times already — I look at something and go, “This is not a valid piece of writing,” and it just goes in the trash.
You don’t keep dead soldiers. You don’t polish them up. You just throw that stuff away.
Same as when I was talking about not being sensitive about song versions: if you’re writing enough, you can throw things away without losing anything.