a lot of writing is just patiently waiting and observing for an idea or story to synthesize 

this is hard to do with a grind set mindset. It’s more like bird watching and no one looks to the best bird watchers for productivity advice

This is exactly why writing is slow. If you only measure time spent hammering out words, you’re missing most of it.

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Writing every day is good because it's the writer equivalent to a musician "practicing their scales."

But just like playing scales isn't playing a song, not every writing session needs to produce something publishable—or even coherent.

Somewhere on the Mary Oliver/Neil Young continuum. Write everyday vs if you can't write a song in 5 minutes walk away. Patience for inspiration, but be there when it happens. Just my thoughts, and this is across mediums. I think about this a LOT! Love hearing other artists talk about this.

My writing productivity is odd. I’ll either speed-type my every thought as fast as I can to get it on paper, or I’ll be very intentional about every word I type. Sometimes I write every day. Sometimes I don’t write for weeks. I can’t force my writings, or it becomes a chore.

i've been having a hard time and this was helpful