Mon Aug 4, 2025

Monday, August 4, 2025

Today marks the beginning of my 12 week journey to publish one essay every week.

I wrote 2-4 hours a day just writing whatever came to mind, desperately trying to find a good topic to write about as my first essay.

The day of is when I realized what my first topic should be about.

Which is MY experience on starting to write, which is pretty meta.

This is what I want to be sharing with you, my readers.

My struggles, setbacks and lessons that I learned, through written word or maybe video/audio format in the future.

Let’s start with the guide.

How do you become a writer?

It really as simple as getting pen and paper, or typing on a laptop, and writing whatever comes to your mind.

I think the hurdle is the publishing part of writing. I won’t lie its kind of an uncomfortable feeling of releasing your work to the internet.

I worry that my writing style will be seen as sloppy and that people will think I am dumb…

Even as I wrote that sentence out, I realize that people make judgements of me in person anyways and that really it doesn’t matter that much. You can’t hide yourself for too long, eventually the mask falls off and people will see how you actually are.

What I am finding is that when it comes to “How to do ‘X’”, just immediately doing the thing teaches you very quickly.

You can’t hide from being an obvious noob, people will find out, so you might as well just own it.

How am I doing it?

I write on my days off and I set 2-4 hours clocked in typing away.

I do at coffee shops or in quiet, less distracting places.

I will listen to white noise if it’s too noisy.

When I feel it necessary to take a break, I will walk and then go back to writing.

I am of the mindset: “be so good they can’t ignore you” which originates from Steve Martin’s advice.

I came across this quote from Cal Newport’s book titled Be So Good They Can’t Ignore You.

It is about letting your work speak for itself, instead of trying make yourself appear better than you actually are.

Cal elaborates the meaning of the quote being about what you should focus on when you start picking up a skill. The question you should have front of mind is “How do I get better?”

If you are continually thinking about refining your skills, eventually you’ll become so obviously skilled in your craft, that people will seek you out for your expertise.

Even you’re currently in a job you don’t like or learning a skill you don’t know if you want to continue. Build something and get that experience to show that you at least did something.

My Reason

I do this because I realize how surface level my thinking was and how mindless I have been operating.

It is of necessity to me clear my brain fog and find clarity as I operate my life.

Writing is an excellent tool to deepen your thinking and to work through challenging situations.

Who knows were publishing my thoughts will go? It could get me fired from my job or ruin future opportunities.

It could lead to things I could of never imagined.

Until next week :)