I was listening to Flight of the Conchords a few weeks ago. They’ve got a song called A Kiss is Not a Contract.
That formula – an X is not a Y – got in my head, which explains the title of this post: A Post is Not an Article.
Here’s what I mean by the title: I’m writing 30 minutes a day, and I’m trying to make that easy for me to do.
One of the ways I can make that easy is to pick something easy to write.
Generally, shorter is easier than longer. Writing War and Peace is harder than writing an article for a magazine. Writing an article for a magazine is harder than writing a blog post for this site.
So if I feel any resistance to writing, I remind myself that a post is not an article. That helps me start writing.