CHOAM Nomsky 💭: Writing is not linearly productive. You can write something no one wants and spend months or years on it; it’s not wasted time. It’s time spent learning how to do things you’ll put into practice elsewhere, so long as you don’t get discouraged and stop.

Writing is not linearly productive. You can write something no one wants and spend months or years on it; it’s not wasted time. It’s time spent learning how to do things you’ll put into practice elsewhere, so long as you don’t get discouraged and stop.

if u see this, quote-post with your tips for writers that no one gives anymore because they seem obvious (even though they're not)

OH on that subject -- sometimes a lack of progress is progress. Sometimes I absolutely sit and stare at libreoffice and struggle and type out like three sentences and it takes me two hours. I then come back and blast through 2k words. It's not always equal, you have sticking points.

There’s a beauty in learning to work with those sticking points, too, right? Identifying the subtleties that identify “this bit is a struggle because this needs to be something else” vs “this needs more time & thought.” It’s as much about learning yourself as it is about learning the craft.

There's also a good chance someone might want it a decade later.

Or seven point six decades later... (I'm counting on it...)

Yes! Also: the value doesn't always come from external validation; writing can be valuable as a private effort to understand or explore with no audience but the self.

love this focus on writing as learning— ty 🙏❤️

I'm trying to interest writers in something that may not be wanted for CENTURIES - I've speculated about writing it as Science Fiction, but... well, I'm not a writer. If YOU knew what Kepler knew – but you lived before Copernicus – what would YOU do with it...?

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