Re:How I motivate myself to write
by kwhitefoot on Sunday October 31, 2021 @04:51AM
(#29055541)
You might want to have written something. I have things I would like to say, or rather to have said. But I have little interest in the business of writing. At intervals I make a desultory attempt to set up a blog but then I fail to actually fill it with anything interesting, not because I have nothing to say but because I can't summon up the effort required to say it.
[ Parent
| on HN ]
Writing can also a tool for thinking and for finding flaws in your ideas. It sounds strange to me that you would like something to have said but don't really want to spend the time to make your argument.
That said, podcasts could also be a way to explore ideas without having to write them down.
Re:How I motivate myself to write
by kwhitefoot on Sunday October 31, 2021 @07:02AM
(#29056121)
> It sounds strange to me that you would like something to have said but don't really want to spend the time to make your argument.
Why is that strange? That is how we run our lives in most other fields. I want to holiday in Spain but I really don't want to learn how to fly to get there. I want a house to live in but i don't want to build it; that is; I want to have built a house but don't want to build a house.
Maybe it's just a little bit arrogant to think what you would like to be said could be important to other people when you don't even want to take the time to write it down in a convincing way.
Living in a house somebody built for you is equivalent to reading.
Re:How I motivate myself to write
by fijiaarone on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @12:37PM
(#29083660)
Exactly, if writing is difficult or unnatural to you, oratory is a reasonable alternative.
Try talking instead of writing. It can be a podcast, youtube, or on a soap box in Hyde Park.