The beginner
Oh, hi friends!
She didn’t know how to write one new and specific thing, so first she didn’t write anything at all.
Then one day, a few weeks — maybe a few months? — later, a phrase came to her, and it seemed kind of relevant, so she wrote it down in her Notes app and looked at it every once in a while.
A few weeks — months? — later, another useful seed came into her brain, so she wrote that down in the same note.
She started absorbing other things that were like her thing and saw, oh, they all have a similar shape and maybe there are some useful rules here. I can take those, she thought to herself. And she did.
Eventually, it seemed silly to have these scatterings in this utilitarian notes place (that’s where she kept her to-do list) so she created a proper document and named it the New Thing.
Now she had a place to deposit any new ideas and bits and bobs.
Eventually, the list grew long enough that it needed some shape, so she started titles and sections and made it a little more presentable.
After a few weeks (months?), the New Thing felt like a Real Thing, and she decided to share it with a friend. The friend had helpful notes, but the fact that someone else’s eyes were on it was the most helpful part.
Now the Real Thing had a co-conspirator. Now it felt like an Important Thing.
And so she worked on it a little more and a lot more. She also might have abandoned it for a few weeks (months? years?) but we don’t need to talk about that, because she eventually came back to it. (She learned you can always come back to it.)
Eventually, the Important Thing felt ready.
Ready for what, she wondered. Maybe more eyes, maybe the Big Leagues (whatever that is?) or maybe to act as the stepping stone to the next little seed and another new beginning.
She enjoyed the making, thinking, and sharing.
And she remembered the time when she didn’t know how to write one new and specific thing, and was scared to write anything at all.
But she did it — she did it anyway.
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Love, Kara