Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred-Sixty-Two, Dateline 9-19-2018
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“Knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that’s good taste.”
Good afternoon crickets. Welcome to day number two-hundred-sixty-two of Operation Achieve Anything. Thanks to last night’s efforts, I am now extremely close to meeting my goal of having a week’s worth of backlog content by this weekend. I think all that I have to do is two more double review nights before I can feel completely safe from having to do another same day review for the rest of this SNL challenge. This would allow me to double down on my efforts to clean up as many pages of this blog as I can to get this website to a site where I wouldn’t feel more confident if I were to actively start to promote it.
Once again, to make thing clear, I’m not trying to become a millionaire from this nonsense. All I require to win is to earn enough money to cover food, utilities, and rent so that I could live out the rest of my life struggling on my own as I write even more. I don’t really care about the size of my audience, I’m just happy to have the opportunity for my voice to be heard. I don’t know why it’s so important, but for some reason, I just can kill this drive to share my tales of the mundane. This is such a specific style that I would be insane to think that I would be able to draw a broader crowd.
This plays into yesterday’s task where I was pretty much just supposed to explore yesterday’s quote of the day that basically said, “You be the best you possible because nobody else can do you any better than you.” This line of thinking is why I always thought that there was a tiny corner of the writing market for me. Since I’ve always actively avoided tradition story format and structure in hopes that I might stumble onto something new, I figured there might be at least some interest in my approach to catch a little attention.
I also felt like the style that I have created, in my fictional work, is so inseparable from me that I could share my work without worrying that a story might get stole. Even if someone were to lift the underlying gimmick or theme, I’d still be safe in knowing that no one can steal the parts that are my signature style. That is why I feel the need to keep going until I can figure out how to articulate my thoughts beyond the first draft phase, where I’ve felt stuck thanks to my battles with imposter’s syndrome and all the other mental disorders that are battling for control of my damaged mind. These perceived flaws also provide the fire that fuels my drive.
I think if I weren’t writing to express myself and my thoughts, I would have given up on this dream many years ago. So, this shows that I’ve been living by yesterday’s quote for over two decades and therefore fulfills the assignment from yesterday. As for today’s assignment, I’m now supposed to test whether or not I actually have the talent to justify continuing on. The book used the example of a disorganized person who wanted to be a wedding planner who then experienced nothing but failure whenever she tried. Then one day she discovered that she thrived as a graphic designer who specialized in wedding day content and then went on to live a happy life in an adjacent career path to her initial plan.
I guess I am doing the same with this website as an adjacent interest to screenwriting, so I have a lot to say on this subject. Of course, you’ll have to wait for tomorrow's update to read these many thoughts, but first I must finish my day, Until then, it’s now time for me to wrap this one up as usual by saying good day and good luck to you and all of your project.
Talk to you soon.
Sincerely,
The Wicker Breaker
P.S. Below are links to my novel, which I plan to promote as part of Operation Achieve Anything, as well as a link to where you can buy the book that is providing the structure to this project in case you would like to purchase it in order to play along.
