Week 8, Sunday: Start of the one-week mega-post experiment
I asked readers to shout-out after my last email update, to let me know if they were reading. I'm hearing a common thread: "Got the email! Couldn't read all the things, but read a bit, love that you're doing this!"
Which makes sense: I'm devoting a lot of time to writing, but you can't exactly make a similarly-sized commitment to consuming all these bits!
In the current workflow, I create one thing a day. On Saturday, I create three things: an original post for the day, plus the email update, plus all the edits and fix-ups of the week's posts. Saturday evenings have ended up being 3-4 hours in length!
The result, like today, was a great deal of exhaustion. In bed by midnight, but with all the night wake-ups that come from being a parent of four. Ben and Addie were up at 5:30 searching for Ben's lost tooth (his first ever! And it was somewhere under his dresser. And it was imperative to find right away).
I am learning so much through this, and finding it so valuable to explore and express …
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