I was speaking with a colleague today about publishing something every day, and they said that they’d struggle because they want things to be perfect. The funny thing is, the only way I can personally get past that feeling is precisely by publishing every day.
For me, now, publishing every day is the thing I’m perfecting. The daily practice is the thing I want to get right, rather than any one individual post. I still want any essays I write to be great, but knowing that there will be hundreds of other posts takes the pressure off.
I’m also champing at the bit to write an essay now. To publish something. To write something deeper and sit in it for a while, whilst still coming back to write in this journal every day. I got a bit burned by the daily non-journal posts, but it’s coming back.
After a few weeks not writing morning pages, I also want to bring that back into my practice. It had become a negative place for me and the positive stuff overlapped with this journal too much, but there’s something missing and I want to figure out what that is.