Anton Maliauski Anton Maliauski

Write it now

February 23, 2024
From series Just write
  1. The desire to write something
  2. Paper will endure anything
  3. Write it now
  4. Quote your feelings
  5. Don't interview yourself. Write.
  6. Notes are ore

I’ve checked this many times. If something comes to mind, write it down right now. Then it will be a different you with different thoughts and energy. And to force yourself means to no longer be real.

This is how Pyotr Rukavina maintains his blog:

I generally write in real time: an idea occurs to me, and the idea takes on a life of its own, gets “called to be written about,” and I try to carve out the time to do so right away. I don’t find the process of writing onerous; generally words flow out of me, and while I will go back and edit the words, finessing the meaning, correcting errors, what emerges is generally fairly close to what I wrote down in the first place.

I write a lot of posts via email, a capability that has allowed me to take my writing out of “sitting in front of a laptop” and, really, anywhere I’m struck. Writing on a tiny iPhone SE isn’t the best and most natural environment (though voice-to-text helps), but the benefit of being able to “strike while the iron is hot” outweighs the fussiness of the tool. These days perhaps half of what I write is on the phone.

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From series Just write:
  1. The desire to write something
  2. Paper will endure anything
  3. Write it now
  4. Quote your feelings
  5. Don't interview yourself. Write.
  6. Notes are ore