Negatively Reinforcing [Writing]
My writing kit. About 10 Mondays ago, Hning and I decided to enter a competition between the two of us – to write something and submit it to each other every second Monday. Failure to do so would result in a payment of 100 Saudi Riyal to the other, an amount we agreed was enough to cause pain to our broke-ass persons. This literary experiment has caused me to learn a few things about the way I work. AN EXERCISE OF THE MIND Just like working out, writing takes a lot of effort – and makes a lot of room for excuses. Imagine the excuses not to work out given by someone who physically exerts themselves for long hours in their day job. Would those excuses not seem justified and reasonable? As someone who works in the publishing industry, I felt that mine were concrete. Copious amounts of reading and writing copy during the day (and well into the evening most times) is enough to make me want to veg out and away from words the rest of the time. "If I don't get p...