Writing every day isn’t the hard part. Knowing what to write about is.
I noticed this yesterday, while working on a technical piece I haven’t published yet. When the subject is already there, the words flow. The same thing happens when I’m describing something that actually happened. I don’t have to think about the text, I just have to think about how to put it into words. The subject isn’t the problem. Having no subject at all is.
And that got me thinking about intention. The words flow because the intention was already there before I even sat down to write. Intention makes it feel like the text was already written and I’m just uncovering it.
I’ll go further. Uttering words without being aware of your own intentions produces mediocre results. The same happens when you utter words trying to hide your intention. Either way, you’re hiding something. In the first case, from yourself. In the second, from others.
Maybe writing every day is less about finding what to say and more about discovering what I already wanted to say.