JulyReply - Re: Stuck in draft

NOTE This post is part of the JulyReply blogging event Gordon wrote about his blog posts being stuck in draft, which is a problem I also have to some extent – my drafts site has 75 posts right now compared to the 67 on the main site. At least one of those drafts carries a date from 2020! I agree with him on urgency being a strong motivator. I’ve turned around similarly sized posts in under an hour and also in months. My interest in specific things ebbs and flows quite frequently, and often it will be a very long time before I can summon the requisite curiosity and motivation to wrap up a draft. Many times, it will be someone chancing across that draft and posting some feedback which motivates me to finish it off. Other times I’ll simply post about having an incomplete draft and let someone express interest, which then becomes my driving force to deliver that bit of writing. And yet, in MOST cases, I just no longer care about the topic to finish that draft ¯\(ツ)/¯ I like having ideas…