What did I do today?
I went for a walk, thought about the Makeshift book, and listened to the Unpublished podcast. When I wrote my first book, I listened to various podcasts on writing, but I had stopped for a few years. Today, I listened to an interview with Devon Price. It was really good.
While Price quoted from Paul J. Silvia’s How to Write a Lot, their advice was more generally about deconstructing the Protestant work ethic. So, I liked it. All of this, of course, was relevant both to the book and to the process of writing it.
While this wasn’t really the day’s writing I had planned, the idea of sitting down to write at seven o’clock at night just seems exhausting to my 42-year-old self in a way it perhaps didn’t to my 32-year-old self. A walk with the dog and the moon and a podcast, much more doable.
So, I’m going to call this a win—not a word written today. And it was glorious. Tomorrow, I’ll do a couple of hours before reading for class. Gently, but not rushed.