I remember when I was a kid, writing an essay on a laptop for the first time, and realizing that the reason the page was blank was because I had nothing to say.
At the end of the day, writing isn't scratching graphite onto paper. It's putting ideas into words, and it's the ideas part that form the main bottleneck for me.
As it turns out, having interesting life experiences and or insightful analysis is hard. The former can only be gained by doing stuff in the real world, while the latter can only be gained by staring at a blank page really hard for a while, and or flashes of insight that seem almost random to me.
Writing is thinking. Programming is thinking. Thinking is hard. Procrastination is easy.
I find what helps is to keep a notebook. Ideas come. I jot them down before they disappear. Now I have much more to say, much more work to do, and procrastination is still easy, but at least that's one problem ameliorated.
At the end of the day, writing isn't scratching graphite onto paper. It's putting ideas into words, and it's the ideas part that form the main bottleneck for me.
As it turns out, having interesting life experiences and or insightful analysis is hard. The former can only be gained by doing stuff in the real world, while the latter can only be gained by staring at a blank page really hard for a while, and or flashes of insight that seem almost random to me.
Writing is thinking. Programming is thinking. Thinking is hard. Procrastination is easy.
I find what helps is to keep a notebook. Ideas come. I jot them down before they disappear. Now I have much more to say, much more work to do, and procrastination is still easy, but at least that's one problem ameliorated.