I need to fail Inkhaven

Release me from this hell

I published a blog post >500 words yesterday, and one the day before. So, if I were doing Inkhaven right now, which I’m not, I would still be in. This is bad and pointless and it needs to end, so here is a blog post UNDER 500 words about why.

Is posting every day necessary?

No. At the first Inkhaven, I had to post every day to be allowed to stay and accomplish my actual goal, which was to make friends. But now I get to hang out even if I don’t post. No one is expecting me to post. There is no incentive to do it. Stop.

Is posting every day helpful?

No. It might feel like having to publish something every day is a good way to actually write some of the posts that have been knocking around in my head, but I already know that that’s not true! I wrote at the end of November, “posting 500 words every day gets you something, but it’s certainly not quality.”

What are my goals anyway?

Writing goals:

• Clarify my thoughts on some complex topics, and eventually share them

• Start posting & finish my fanfiction for [redacted] that I started writing two years ago, before the idea is made obsolete by [redacted]¹

• Write more songs

Goals for this month:

• idk, run a coffee shop? Have a good time?

Then why am I posting every day?

• Because I’ve been in the vicinity of social pressure to do so, even though it’s not directed at me?

• Because streaks are addictive. After Inkhaven 1, I kept posting every day for four more days. At 10 PM on the fourth day, I realized I hadn’t written, and started frantically typing before I gave up. I ended my 34 days of posting every day with this sentence:

  

  – though posting every day is probably holding you back from working on things that might actually be good.

1. May no one who knows me in real life ever connect me to my fanfiction, amen.