For the past week, I’ve been back on track, writing more than I have been in quite a while.
More specifically, I’ve been working on what will most likely become a physical book, with the preliminary placeholder title of “How to Make Writing Fun, Simple, and Enjoyable (while writing faster than ever before)”.
It’s been a lot of fun, so far (meta, right?).
But the whole premise got me thinking: What does it mean for something to be considered “fun”?
For starters, and contrary to popular belief, if something’s “easy” (that is, entirely without a lack of challenge), then I’ve got it on good authority it ain’t going to be a “fun” experience. There’s simply nothing LESS FUN than boring activities.
This is what many of these “I want to sit on a beach and drink pina coladas all day” types of people miss.
They only say such stuff because they currently aren’t capable of doing so (as humans we tend to want the things we cannot have—such is the cruel way of life). In fact, if they could, chances are they wouldn’t even want to. Maybe you’d enjoy it for a day or two, sure. But after three, four, let alone a full week, you’d be entirely sick of it and you’d crave for some challenge, some excitement in your life, something to dedicate yourself to and actually work on achieving something worthwhile and meaningful (what’s considered meaningful differs from person to person).
But what does this have to do with writing?
You see, if I could hand you a cheat sheet with the exact steps to take, the exact actions to make, and the exact buttons to press (such a cheat sheet doesn’t exist, but let’s assume it does), then writing for you would be the most boring task you could think of.
It’d be monotonous, repetitive, factory-like work which, no matter how much results or how good of an outcome would come of it, none of it would bring you fun, much less true joy.
So, if making the practice “easy” doesn’t do the trick, then what will?
Well, that’s what I’ve been thinking about—intensely. And I finally figured it out.
See, everything that’s fun can be boiled down to 2 ingredients.
And once you know these two it’s easy to inject them into almost every single activity you do (making it so you can turn almost any activity or experience into one that’s as fun as it can get).
Imagine how much more work you’d get done if what you were doing! You wouldn’t even consider it “work” anymore at that point.
So what are those two ingredients?
Well, to figure that out you’ll have to buy my book when it releases.
Until then, why don’t you check out Product Creation Made Easy? I’m using almost the exact same method I teach in there to write (and eventually launch or publish) the book. I say almost, because as with anything, there’s always room for adaptation and improvisation—which I show you how to do in the course as well.
Anyway.
Check it out here: https://alexvandromme.com/product