Get Everything Done

Norman, so sorry to hear of your allergies. I was never seriously affected by seasonal allergies, but instead had year-round allergies for over 20 years. I don't have them anymore--a miracle I'm still trying to adjust to.

I'm not sure what you mean by "writing chops." Do you mean you don't know if you have the stomach for writing it all done, the desire to, or the skill to? If it's the latter, there are no worries there. There are editors aplenty.

I'll comment on your take on goals and balance in another post. And by the way, I have no idea why you think I'm so intelligent. My 13yo son would be glad to set you straight on that.

I skipped over Norman's long posts the first time I went through this thread. Just managed to read through them from the first post. I'll be trying harder to suspend "what I thought was necessary and give a moment to each task and let it ask for my help", that would hopefully help cycles me through my DWM list faster/better.

I would love to re-read the stories in a blog post here. ;-)

Isn't it strange but true that you can work through the night on something that calls you and still feel that you're not really trying?

That's what happens when your inner lizard is on your side.

In essence, AF/DWM give you an alternative strategy to engage it. (As opposed to lying to it, which is a key recommendation in DIT. This works well in the short term, but surely it can't be healthy?)

Norman,

A marvellously effective, compulsive, absorbing piece of writing. Although written in a number of sittings, I remember it as one great rush.

How did it feel to write, in comparison to your spikier, more acerbic comments on our foolishness? It reads as if you just dropped the barriers and let it out. Unforced and uninhibited, like the night you spent going through the flat looking for the bamboo paper.

I'd like to think of this stream itself as an example of how you can get remarkable things done if you stop trying.

Thank you for having the courage to come out from your sniping position and lay yourself open like this. You hint that it is not comfortable and that, having ridiculed us mercilessly, you feel somewhat exposed. Your other(, more focused and crafted,?) comments are almost always interesting and provocative. But this had the real power of a force of nature.

Will:

"Thank you for having the courage to come out from your sniping position and lay yourself open like this. You hint that it is not comfortable and that, having ridiculed us mercilessly, you feel somewhat exposed."

Projection. Look it up.

Lol. Will thanks you for not sniping and in response you snipe. (and let's not get technical over the meaning of the word), the thought is clear. And yet, Norman, your response is entirely correct.

Alan,

I choose to read Norman's response as meaning that he was projecting, As we all have to do, in the absence of better data.

I don't see anything offensive in it, even if he means that I have read too much into "Just hope it amounts to more than narcissistic bluster..." .