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Discussion on: What's holding you back from creating as much content as you would like to?

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Alex Zherdev

I can definitely commiserate with what you're saying here, especially this bit—you're definitely not alone:

If I was to go back 10 years, I'd have had the time to undertake that cadence, and be comfortable with it. But I didn't have a family life back then.

With regards to needing more time in-between the writing, I liken this to negative space in art, or perhaps to silence in music. It's possible for a melody to go on and on without pause, but it wouldn't be the most enjoyable to listen to. Great composers treat silence as a first-class citizen (to borrow some tech lingo). The melody needs to both breathe in and out to keep the listener engaged. Likewise a writer needs some breathing room, otherwise there's just no way to keep producing engaging content.

I don't know if that analogy makes sense, but your plan, to me, does.