How Does a Medium Writer Judge His Worth?
Some tough questions about your work-product
Some tough questions about your work-product
How am I doing at this writing for Medium stuff?
That, along with “do I feel lucky, punk?” are the two questions we have to ask ourselves daily.
Are the very pinnacle of observances occurring concerning my works?
Has Winston given me a shout-DOWN? Does David Perlmutter use a black marker on my stuff? Has perky Zulie Rane made a video showing me as a BAD example?
Actually, none of these are as important as the answer to the question, “do I put out? Well, better phrased, do I produce?” This is the sine qua non of our writing existence.
If one pulls one’s hand out of a bucket of water, what size hole remains in the water?
That has become painfully clear to me this month as I came back from an expedition into spring break frivolity. It is very hard to recover your inertia. The views, at least for me, dropped off daily while I was not writing.
As the graph of my writing starts to get into (on the left side) areas where my writing chops had really HAD started to build, the now daily decrease due to the disappearance of these higher levels gives the impression of a precipitous drop now.
It now seems to take twice as much work today as it did before the break, because of playing catch-up while playing today's game, too.
This probably sounds Greek to most non-graph-studiers, but the bottom line is, if you became a writer to be able to sit under a shade tree and ponder things, boy did you blow it.
It's a dog-eat-dog world. Your work-product portfolio, like mine, only at a meager 126 stories, will not keep much past an abbreviated expiration date. What did you write for me lately?
So do take some time off from day to day.
About 8 hours should be OK. Then get back to it.
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