I Wrote For 3 Years Straight Before Anybody Cared — Here’s How
The secret ingredient in staying consistent
Creating on the internet is lonely work.
It might be even lonelier for those of us who create alongside our full-time jobs. Not many people understand why we have the desire to create a scale alongside demanding jobs.
But for us, it makes total sense. It’s something we’ve built up over the years, it’s become ingrained in our lives to create online.
But if you want to stick around for the long haul, here’s some stuff you need to know.
The boring work becomes boring
Building alongside full-time work can be a slog.
The danger of churn is that it becomes boring, day in, day out things things all merge into one.
It can, if you’re not careful, turn into a numbers game. It did for me. You have a list of things that you need to get done in a day and it becomes a churn of boredom:
- Tweet
- Write
- Repeat
Your to-do list writes itself and things stagnate. If you feel yourself getting bored, you need to mix it up. The work will still need doing but there are a million and one ways to…
