I've been writing for publication every day, for some time now. Not quite two years, but well on the way. Amazingly (to me) I've not missed a day.
So I now have a fair bit of experience of ‘what it's like’ (for a Giles, anyway) in my little Thought System 📦
Before I started, I did not.
I could not even comprehend doing this. In very simple terms, the experiential reality of writing daily was outside of my Thought System—a known unknown—so all my left brain had to go on was:
- What it had observed of others writing daily, and
- What it had observed of my own, much more sporadic, writing habits.
These are both The Past. That's all the mind has at its disposal, which I think you'll agree is a spectacularly limited dataset.
Like, that's nothing. (We know nothing.)
And given that it's generally trying to look out for me (but in a really inappropriate and clueless way), it's maybe no surprise that—until I had some coaching—that very same left brain had looked at the notion of writing daily and concluded: