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Mark Fishman
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I’m thinking about bringing back my “museletter” format that I wrote several years ago. 1. What’s a museletter? Each week you share what you’ve been thinking about. It’s a simple roundup of some observations and notes from the past several days. There’s no pressure to synthesize or do much formatting before publishing. Ideally you’ve already done some “thinking in public” during the week and can simply reference yourself. 2. Why bring it back? I love the consistency that @firstdraftclub has given me (31 consecutive weeks of writing something in /firstdraft) but I don't feel like I'm developing my ideas as much as I'd like. FDC is merely a "minimum viable writing habit" (h/t @sonyasupposedly). I have tons of ideas that get stuck somewhere between a cast and a full post, and I want a forcing function to push them out into the world. A weekly museletter is the next level of commitment that can be a reliable habit.
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Mark Fishman
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I started a museletter on Substack in 2019 because I wanted to develop my ideas through writing. And it worked: in a later post, I observed “What started as fledgling thoughts have become confident stances.” However, without any accountability or habit, the museletter eventually died off. Five years later, that experience shaped the DNA of First Draft Club: I created a system that would keep me writing on a regular schedule, regardless of the format. This approach has been relatively successful but doesn’t go far enough. If I really want to help people “go from 0 to 1 with writing”, I think I need to be more opinionated on how it happens. (For those curious, here's an example issue of the museletter: https://marksbrainwaves.substack.com/p/3-things-im-thinking-about)
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