lessons on committing to creativity, from the habits i already have

Herman’s recent post on committing to creativity resonated very much with me, especially this entire paragraph because I could have written it myself: The nice thing is that commitments become easier with time. I have near zero resistance to exercising and journalling, and have been doing both almost every day for close to a decade. The first year or two were difficult, but once they were a part of my day, they became absurdly easy to continue doing. Relatedly, when I'm in a good writing routine it is effortless to write. However, if I go a month without writing on my blog (as is currently the case), each word is a struggle. For a while now, writing hasn’t come easy to me. This was frustrating because I used to have such a regular writing routine, where I’d wake up early, get my morning pages and exercise in, then write, and I did so consistently for years and years. I couldn’t figure out why I had become unable to write. To some extent it probably had to do with losing an audience,…