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Why Writing Every Day Is Not Always the Best Option
A tale of two mindsets
Creativity is a strange thing.
Sometimes it seems like it’s gone on vacation, usually when you’re super energised and ready to produce some great work.
Other times it won’t stop tapping you on the shoulder at 3AM.
I personally resonate with an idea that Elizabeth Gilbert shared in her book ‘Big Magic’. The idea that creativity and inspiration are not part of us, but are separate entities which come and go as they please, and we can either accept their presence or simply ignore them.
I find that dealing with creativity is a constant negotiation, and I have realised that there is a very good reason for this.
I see a lot of stories on Medium which encourage building a writing habit, writing every day, and treating writing as a kind of hustle, grinding it out, and writing as much as you can.
I have never really liked this approach.
The reason we want to make a living from writing is that we enjoy it. We don’t want it to be a slog every day, to grind out articles and content like a productivity machine.
I have tried the approach that many writing productivity gurus across the web are promoting. It left me not wanting to…
