down to earth

“What is interesting about having a blog or some sort of daily project…

Even if it’s like – i post one thing to Instagram everyday… ya know, just something little like that…

Having something that you have to do every day…

You find out –It’s not that you have something to say, it’s that you find out what you have to say.

So like, writing everyday – some people say – oh, well you must have so much to say because you write everyday –

I’m like, actually, it’s the opposite…

I have more to say because I sit down and write every day, and I figure out what I’m thinking

and what it actually is that I have to say.

So writing is actually not just a way of communicating with the world it’s actually a way of communicating with yourself because the simple act of sitting down in front of a keyboard for 45 min or pulling out your notebook for a half hour or whatever it is – you are creating space in the day for you to kinda connect with what’s here (points to his head) and figure out what’s going on and what is it that I really feel and what is it that I really think …

That’s something the beginner has to get over very quickly – is that this idea that well, I don’t have anything to say what am I gonna blog about…

It’s like –The pressure and the routine and the muscles of blogging every day means that you will get to something everyday”

• Austin Kleon, author of Show Your Work

Transcribed from a podcast excerpt between Ali Abdaal and Austin Kleon, taken from youtube video “How writing online made me a millionaire” by doctor/youtuber, Ali Abdaal ^ timestamp 9:36

~ feb 8, blog quest, one a day ~