I write a personal blog because I want to get an idea out of my head. It's almost a pathological need to put it to paper or bits, or else it festers inside and

I write a personal blog because I want to get an idea out of my head. It's almost a pathological need to put it to paper or bits, or else it festers inside and distracts me from what I want to do. This post here is here because of that need. Other ways I deal with this need is carrying physical notebooks and a pen just about everywhere I go. Sometimes I turn them into blog posts. Sometimes I turn them into stories. Right now there are about six game ideas and four business ideas in the notebook next to me, as well as dozens of proto-essays. My blog likewise has almost twice as many "draft" essays than published posts. This wasn't the norm for me two years ago. If you were to give me a page and a pen then, it would be blank for months. I made a decision to make it easy and effortless to write down ideas and thoughts. That meant carrying around a notebook and pen to many places I went. I also started doing stream-of-thought notes to try and jog my noggin when I was first starting out. The takeaway here is to just get started. All my early stuff is garbage now, but it served as a good first wave to get me in the habit of writing.