Do the Work

So I wrote last night, which was interesting, different, unexpected and a little liberating. I’ve been reading Patrick Rhone’s blog, Rhoneisms, and he’s been directing me to writers like CJ Chilvers, who implores you to just write if you have a blog. A blog is a personal space you make your own. Do the work (that’s from a different book, but popped into my head).

And I realized this morning that writing is something I can do when it feels like there’s nothing that I can do. My reaction to feeling sad is to try and figure out something that I can do about it, but in this case, there’s nothing that I can do. There’s nothing that can be done for her that isn’t being done. She is being taken care of, and other than that it’s just wait and watch and weep.

But I can take care of myself, and I can do that by writing, and by writing more than just jotting an entry in my journal to keep my consecutive daily streak alive (900 days and counting, woo!). And my game has put me a soft penalty box. I’ve played too much, it seems, and now I have to wait a couple of days to start earning again. I can keep playing, but I won’t earn battle pass points or fading embers, I think until tomorrow. I logged in this morning, did some stuff, but then logged back out. I’ll probably get back on later, but there’s other things to be done. Like writing. Maybe I’ll start a Substack, though I’m not sure what I would say, who would read it, etc. I think Patrick and CJ would say those are the wrong things to be thinking about.

I also want to note that I’ve started just writing on the iPad, on the screen. No fiddling around with keyboards, trying to find the best way to type. Just open Drafts and start typing. The screen is working, and I’m not sure why. I’ve never really liked typing when the screen is upright before, but for some reason it’s working for me this time. I got a new iPad from my work, and the screen is a little bigger. Maybe that’s it.