Category: Creator Confidential
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A journal’s purpose
Every journal exists for one purpose: for someone to fill it up. You can fill up a journal in many ways. Here are some: writing, drawing, collage, painting, or coloring. Once the journal is full, it has achieved its purpose and it quietly transforms into a book. You can choose to dispose of it, keep…
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The asymptotic queue
I write every day at this blog. It’s a rule that I respond very well to. Some people who write every day queue up many posts ahead of time, so something goes live every day. I imagine some people are 60 or even 100 days ahead. That means a post they write today will go…
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Finding an answer to a question nobody else could answer
There have been many moments when I could have stopped writing at this blog every day. For example, this year alone, I might’ve been several days behind on posts. I was determined not to fall behind during my trip to Asia, and I didn’t, but then I fell behind upon returning to Canada. What can…
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The point of writing every day isn’t to write every day
Since 2007, every year, Tony Stubblebine publishes an article on things he feels grateful for. Except, sometimes, he’s late. A couple of days ago, he published the one for 2024—the year before this one. As I dove into his archives, I noticed he’d aggregated some years—one article might contain three or four years’ worth of…