I last woke up and did my daily writing quota back on January 7th, right about the point two things happened.
1) The stress and workload attached to my day job ramped up to a new level, courtesy of our impending program launch.
2) I started playing Worlde first thing in the morning, putting me on my phone instead of a computer. Not long after, I began sharing daily results to a family messenger group, a quick check-in with the fam who’d become similarly taken with the game.
At first, I blamed the bulk of my non-writing on the stress and the anxiety that came with it, but the writing habits didn’t resume after I delivered the draft program and ceased working twelve-hour days. Stress was a contributor, no doubt, but it wasn’t the sole cause.
Today, I resolved not to play Worldle until after 7:00 AM.
And lo, I have six pages of writing notes and a re-connection to the habit of getting up and doing things for the first two or three hours of my day.
Little things like Worlde don’t derail you on their own—context and a need to soothe my anxiety gave a quick game the foothold that became a morning habit of Worlde, Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, Sales checks, etc, etc—but once that habit lodged itself into my routine, it needed a change in context to break the flow from one to the next.
Wordle 249 4/6
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