Jasmine wrote: “ One day, I'll decide that it's time to write. That's when I go into lockdown—I block out like two eight-hour blocks in my schedule. And I'll force myself to have a draft by the end of the day. It doesn't have to be like a good draft, but I know you can be in collecting mode forever. So sometimes you just have to put a deadline on it.
Since I mostly publish on Friday mornings, I don't do anything on Thursdays right now.4 I can float around the rest of the week—do coffee chats and see my friends and sit around reading in the park—but every Thursday, I make zero plans. I won't get coffee, I won't get dinner. My only task for the day is to take all my notes and highlights and turn them into a post.”
This is helpful to me. So many ideas, so little posts to show for all the ideas, all the comments and posts I've made. Collecting mode does go on forever, for me, at least. Blocking a specific day for writing might help. I'm a lockdown mode aficionado. Thank you, Jasmine.
Jasmine, does all your reading flow through Readwise? I know you don’t intend for the interview to be an infomercial but your collection process is fascinating— do you use both forms is Readwise? Thanks for your help!
Jasmine wrote: “ One day, I'll decide that it's time to write. That's when I go into lockdown—I block out like two eight-hour blocks in my schedule. And I'll force myself to have a draft by the end of the day. It doesn't have to be like a good draft, but I know you can be in collecting mode forever. So sometimes you just have to put a deadline on it.
Since I mostly publish on Friday mornings, I don't do anything on Thursdays right now.4 I can float around the rest of the week—do coffee chats and see my friends and sit around reading in the park—but every Thursday, I make zero plans. I won't get coffee, I won't get dinner. My only task for the day is to take all my notes and highlights and turn them into a post.”
This is helpful to me. So many ideas, so little posts to show for all the ideas, all the comments and posts I've made. Collecting mode does go on forever, for me, at least. Blocking a specific day for writing might help. I'm a lockdown mode aficionado. Thank you, Jasmine.
Jasmine, what a generous conversation.
Many, many thanks.
Jasmine, does all your reading flow through Readwise? I know you don’t intend for the interview to be an infomercial but your collection process is fascinating— do you use both forms is Readwise? Thanks for your help!
yes everything! Readwise syncs & handles kindle, web articles, pdfs, twitter, youtube, etc so I use it for everything
What an insightful conversation - thank you both.
thank you for listening :)
thank you this is so helpful as a new substack writer! i definitely will refer back to this often