The tragedy of writing one post per day and what to do about it
“Ah! No doubt we will have many pleasant reminiscences of our schooldays to talk about”, I thought as I was listening to our instructor introducing himself and what would be the main subject of interest to us for the next two years: How to become a better manager.
“Good managers read and stay current with developments”, he said, “so as an assignment, you will write at least one post per day related to the course topic”.
“That assignment, unexpectedly, threw Zoe into a strange state of agitation”; the little voice in my head was simultaneously commentating on my teacher’s every word.
The little voice in my head was Emily Bronte by the way.
Emily tends to write in a particular genre — tragedy.
Writing daily is a freaking hard work.
Emily in my head was freaking out. At the same time another brain part of mine was crafting guidelines for accomplishing the task at hand. You can thank me later.
- Read to write: The more you read, the better you are prepared to discuss a wide range of topics and themes.
- Be inspired by others or have them guest-post on your blog: By collecting ideas from a variety of other bloggers, you’ll greatly amplify the reach of your blog and make some new friends on the way.
- Celebrate your creativity and share your ideas: An idea only becomes good through contact. Sharing and cooperation is at the center of innovation processes. A blog post can identify a need that can quickly become a usable product (or a thesis). Let alone the joy you receive from the creativity.
- Accept that you are the tragic hero: Perhaps the real benefit of this assignment lies here - to learn to look at the reality of things in the eye. Tragically, it is life’s undeserved misfortune that we need to work hard to get where we want to be. I just needed to fit Aristotle somewhere in this post.
- Try not to be perfect: In the end what matters is not perfection, it’s originality.
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. — Marilyn Monroe
Emily and I thank you for reading this.
