Woolane · Guide · Stage 03 · Consideration
Guide · Stage 03 · Consideration
A small system that protects two things at once: the cadence you promised, and the energy that made you want to write in the first place.
Most publishing plans assume you will be inspired. Real ones assume you will be tired. This is the system we use to keep showing up through the months when nothing is exciting and the work matters most.
Steps
Open a single document and dump every loose thought, message, conversation, link, and half-question from the past week. No structure. The point is to externalise what is already in your head.
Re-read Monday's dump. Circle the one idea that feels most alive. If two feel alive, pick the smaller one. Smaller pieces ship; bigger ones rot.
Set a 45-minute timer. Write the whole piece end to end, badly. No edits, no headlines, no tweaking. The only goal is to reach the last sentence.
Read the draft aloud and rewrite any sentence that makes you stumble. Cut roughly 20%. Add one specific example or number you were too lazy to add yesterday.
Publish. Tell one person directly. Save the link and one line about what you'd do differently in your 'rhythm notes'. Close the document. Do not refresh stats.
Checklist
What you do when none of the above happened.
Prompts
A note to close on
A year of weekly publishing is fifty-two pieces. None of them have to be brilliant. They have to exist, in your voice, on the day you said they would.
Where this fits in the Woolane Path
Stage 03 · Consideration
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