[hasoleju]

As someone who just started writing regularly a few weeks ago this piece is very encouraging!

I'm very curious if I will be able to make writing a habit. In the past I often quit new behaviors after a few months.

I discovered this quitting behavior a year ago and since I'm aware of it I found a lot of examples where this happened in my past. Now I see everything I start as part of a big experiment to test which things stick. So that I can learn which properties of a habit make it stick with me.

[vonjuice]

Hello, I'm someone who's been through that and I'm "on the other side" in the sense that I did stick to it. I wrote this and I hope you find it helpful: https://medium.com/@vonjuice/4-important-words-for-writing-c...

> Now I see everything I start as part of a big experiment to test which things stick. So that I can learn which properties of a habit make it stick with me.

This is wise. In addition to watching the properties of the object, which could be considered static, be mindful of the properties in yourself and how these interact with the former, because yours are dynamic and can be developed as a skill, so you learn how to make beneficial habits stick more regardless of their perceived properties.

[hasoleju]

Thanks for your reply. The "stop" was new to me. Having a good feeling when you stop because you know that you come back again is helpful.

I read a few more of your articles and I like the variety of topics. Keep on going!

[vonjuice]

Thank you!

[hypertexthero]

I’m the same way, I think.

It’s like the movie Groundhog Day.

Every moment is a new start, and you keep starting over and over again and trying to finish or to improve your navigation of a messy, random river that is life.

A piece of writing, a project, a trip to see friends is usually interrupted by life. And there’s never that perfect time for you to do the work. Perfection is a memory of the past.

We need to do things in between, simultaneously with all the mess, and keep starting over and over.