Clean Up

In the last days I had to go through my older posts. Many of them where unevenly named or some did not have a correct header placed. To put this into numbers there are around 186 posts and around 60 are in draft status. Meaning that 1/3 of my written posts are drafts. …and it is quite a mess in there right now.

The pattern of creation is also interesting. For a longer period of days I’m idling. Then I have an explosion of ideas, up to three at once. However, often these keep in a draft state. Some posts are just created to catch the idea. Many others are left in an incomplete state. Few posts are fine, and I didn’t feel good about posting them…to keep it short: it is a mess.

Browsing through the posts I notice a pattern in creation dates that is interesting. For a longer period of days I’m idling. Then I have an explosion of ideas, up to three at once. However, often these keep in a draft state. Some posts are just created to catch the idea. Many others are left in an incomplete state. Few posts are fine, and I didn’t feel good about posting them.

It works like this in detail, I think: I start to work on the idea and while working on it, I got another idea and start to do some research. This is where I get sidetracked. The worst moment are when I then get lost in details. Either for the research or the writing.

Here comes the funny thing: This pattern seems to be consistent over the last days when I wrote almost every day too. Long story short: I need to work ion my planning. Because I get sidetracked that often, I should ask of how to handle this more better?

This might be related to my writing process in which I mixed up the different types of task. Frequently, I start to write without a topic and follow the flow, just like this post. At some point I need to search something or need to know something. Here the new idea strikes me and I start to focus on this topic.

Instead, I should try to have a more narrow idea what I try what I want to write or either I completed the research and make the notes separately. Once I’ve completed it, I write about what I’ve found.

so far,
akendo