“Hi a writing thing I've been finding really helpful lately is I outline and organize and elaborate on all my points in my notes app so it feels super casual, then when you copy that over to your Actual Writing Program, you see you've already written so much!! Boom! No more blank page.

The cool thing about keeping ongoing outlines and pieces in a notes app is you can add to them anywhere!! I got into the habit of making sure to write any new thought or addition as notes throughout my day, then when you sit down to Write, you already have so much to work with!

To me, the writing process is all about tricking myself out of having to look at a blank page — all that wandering around and writing notes and pieces on the go IS writing even though it doesn't feel like it. Then the Actual Writing isn't generating ideas from nothing, its building.”
Jonny Sun
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