How to make chaos a system

Don’t try to reject your imperfections — work around them.

If there would be a world championship for ‘The Most Common Reason for Failure in Writing’, the ‘I just can’t start’ argument will take the First place, the Second one, and the People’s Choice Award.

But despite being as common, as the bad mood on Monday morning — it’s not the reason itself but the result of many different factors. It could be a lack of time or motivation, a writer’s block when you just staring on a blank page without any clue what to write, or something else.

The ‘I can’t start writing’ in literature and blogging is the equivalent of ‘I feel sick’ in medicine. It can be literally anything. From a spoiled taco at the street food stand to middle-age cirrhosis caused by heavy drinking (quite applicable for literature as well).

But the treatment of those things is different. Even opposite, I’d say:

To solve the medical problem, you should completely eliminate its causative agent. But that’s not the case in writing, despite what you might read in tons of motivational articles.

To overcome your stoppers you may just adapt your writing system in a way that will mitigate their effect. Writing is not about a set of rules, methods, and algorithms. It’s about, well… writing.

So the main task is to build a system which will allow you to write consistently, while still feeling comfortable enough to maintain the quality.

The Solution

During my tough writing period, I have been stumbled across a lot of articles like: