Sometimes, you don’t have time for your last needed post of the day.

But you want to ship it anyway.

You go back and forth.

• Do I use another quote from the archive?
• An original essay?
• Maybe something off of an old draft?
• Maybe a comment on a current event – even though I hate those.

I only have 3 minutes?!

Welp.

Done:

I just wanted to share this post by Derek Sivers on writing.

We so easily forget what power there is in clarity and brevity.

In My Writing Process, he says:

This is what I do for everything I post:
1. Write all of my thoughts on a subject.
2. Argue against those ideas.
3. Explore different angles until I’m sick of it.
4. Leave it for a few days or years, then repeat those steps.
5. Hate how messy these thoughts have become.
6. Reduce them to a tiny outline of the key points.
7. Post the outline. Trash the rest.

I mean even his URL’s are brief and simple.

Let’s all write more things like this.

Don’t miss Sivers book: Anything You Want.