Always Be Doing

This paragraph is from the email newsletter that will announce tomorrow’s Disquiet Junto project. It provides context for the week’s effort. This will be the 720th consecutive Disquiet Junto project.

This week’s project involves reworking recent work. It was inspired by a few different observations, one of which comes in the form of a memory from college. I worked for a spell on one of the literary magazines published by students. Early my first year, the editor-in-chief had quickly announced a due date for submissions. My immediate sense was this impending date didn’t provide sufficient time for potential contributors to write something. I came to understand that the sort of writers this publication was looking for didn’t need to be told to do something in order to start it. They would already be writing regularly. They just needed to be given a deadline to finish one of the things they were working on. I think about this experience all the time.