Despite my renewed enthusiasm for writing first drafts in fiction, again, I haven’t ever quite stopped writing other kinds of content. Interestingly, when I was at the top of my writing game, I was also writing things regularly. Blog posts, advertising content, funny eBay descriptions, knowledge base articles, and other kinds of whatnots. I had a job some time ago working for friends, writing a lot of various kinds of content for them and that job inspired regular blogging.

My new job is with one of the people I used to work for. We now work together doing cool stuff like building websites and doing SEO and banging our heads on our tables when we have to try to remember some CSS code that was SO EASY when we did it all the time but now it’s super confusing and a bunch of crazy. Okay, that last one’s just me. Anyway, I’ve been writing content lately. I think writing (sometimes boring) content every day lubes up the fiction mechanisms, and if I didn’t have this job I might not be feeling the same ease with my novel right now.

I don’t actually fret about the content I write. Is it a bio? I can knock it out of the park. Is it technical writing? Psshh, easy peasy. I can do as many drafts as I have to and it’s no problem. I wonder, really, how come that is. I have no answers, but even so I am just keeping on keeping on, right? Questioning the gift horse seems like a baaaad idea.

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On the real, I am doing this job so that Nikoda and I can afford to publish more books. If any of those books happens to contain a work from me that finally stopped languishing in my mind, that’s a super-bonus.

So, any thoughts about that? I’d be interested to know what someone else thinks about the weird dichotomy between “content” and “stories” when it comes to how much I’ll agonize.

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