Cow Milking, Cud Chewing, and Flying Monkeys

Lots of activity last week on this Substack. This week is a bit of a lull. I thought I would take the opportunity to supply some general background on how I spend my professional time these days, just in case anyone is curious as to how these various pieces fit together. So, this is a good post to ignore if you don’t actually care about that! I get the best results by spending a couple of hours in the morning writing new material, then spending the rest of the day working on unrelated projects. This makes it possible for some kind of background process to happen such that when I sit down again the next morning I actually have something to write. When that process is up and running, I call it Milking the Cow. You can’t milk a cow 24/7, you have to milk her for a short time and then let her go out to pasture and be a cow for the rest of the day, chewing her cud and so on. Likewise with writing or any other form of focused creative work. Because I am a nerd, my non-writing activities–Cud

Lots of activity last week on this Substack. This week is a bit of a lull. I thought I would take the opportunity to supply some general background on how I spend my professional time these days, just in case anyone is curious as to how these various pieces fit together. So, this is a good post to ignore if you don’t actually care about that! I get the best results by spending a couple of hours in the morning writing new material, then spending the rest of the day working on unrelated projects. This makes it possible for some kind of background process to happen such that when I sit down again