One Apple A Day #15
Writing about the reason I’m writing. Is it weird? It sounds a bit weird. I started this project 2 weeks ago. For the past 14 days I spent 15 minutes every day writing something. And with something I really mean anything. Whatever was the inspiration for the day. Conversations between two characters, personal thoughts, dramatic scenes, fights and else. The purpose of this project is not the creation of specific content. It is only to write with the only aim to improve my writing skills.
I always suffered from a lack of willpower and discipline. This has been made worse by the fact that at school I did well without any particular efforts. As a result, I always thought that I can solve anything with my creative mind.
As you can imagine, it doesn’t work. Or better, it works if your aim is just to survive. To keep your head out of the water to be able to float and breathe. If you want to reach the shore you must swim. Every now and then the waves bring some of the floating ones to the shore. But it’s luck. And most of the time when they come out from the water they are too old and weak to walk on their own.
No, the best way is to swim. Put some effort. Depending on the talent you have you may use one style or another. You may be faster or slower. But you need to put enough effort to face the waves and move towards the shore. You also need to know in which direction you have to swim but that’s another topic.
The point is that sometime I write. A post here, a short article there. My friends always told me that I’m not bad at it. And this has been a problem. Because I relaxed and became lazy, hiding behind what I thought was talent. As a result my writing became worst. My creativity dried up.
I had to something.
But what? I still lack willpower and discipline.
This is where I learned that a good idea is to do something so little that it doesn’t require willpower and discipline. And to do it so often that it becomes an habits and discipline will be soon unnecessary.
This is why I started “One Apple A Day”. A 15 daily writing practice to keep the ball rolling and improve my skills. I’m not thinking at the final outcomes at the moment. It would add pressure and make it more difficult to sustain. My only focus is on my 15 minutes every day. My apple.