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kazeugma
@kazeugma

As someone who completed long and detailed personal projects, and someone who has worked on others not to completion, and is working on one now, my advice to myself and to anybody else who is like this is to, at least once per day, just open the thing.

Maybe it's your notes for your novel, maybe it's your timeline in DaVinci Resolve or Sony Vegas. Maybe it's the tracker for your audio. But whatever it is, without even committing to doing any work at all, just open it up and take a look. Every day.

You absolutely do not need to put in work on the thing every day. Do not commit to that. Just open it.


metaregress
@metaregress

this actually jives nicely with something I've been feeling lately re: personal projects and puts it very nice and succinctly.

I've been thinking of it as "even just thinking about this thing and what's making it hard right now counts as progress" which helps decouple "taking visible steps towards the thing being complete" from "making progress on the thing." which helps decrease some of the inertia/anxiety that can come from stalled projects.

Almost all my planning documents have a scratchpad section in them where I can vent or ramble or speculate, and even just going in there to be like "I'm interested in working on this more but I don't know how to move forward" can be nice.


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