Yesterday’s prompt: “Tomorrow, I think it would be cool to have a word vomit that looks back on older vomits.”

Let’s do it, let’s take a look back.

A general good piece of advice is “begin with the end in mind”. When I started /1000/, I did not begin with the end in mind. I just wanted to get it done. Was that bad? I think… sometimes, it may be better to just start, if overthinking it means you’re not going to start at all. Like, if I had sat down to conceptualize everything, would I have even started? There’s no way of knowing for sure. All I can do is do better the next time. So hopefully the next time I start a project, I begin with the end in mind. I’m working on a set of micro-essays called “Naughty Boy”, and I’m going to plan that one backwards for sure. Even coming up with the name works as an example of that – I wanted to think about what it would take to sell the book to people, and I came up with the positioning first before writing the essays.

So. Now, we’re thinking about the end of the project when we’re 71.5% into it. It’s not ideal, but better late than never.

What do I want at the end of the project?

• I want a better sense of who I am as a person. Who is Visakan Veerasamy, really? What is he about? What makes him tick? What are his motivations and interests?
• I want to know what my weaknesses are.
• I want to know what are my faulty methods of thinking.
• I want to know what my bad habits are, and what works to fix them.
• I want to know what my good ideas are, and what I should expand on, follow up on.
• I want to know what are the patterns. What are the things that have been recurring? How do I identify them, group them, sort them? I think I have periodically issued directives to myself. What are all the groups of categories?
• I want to extract anything that will be useful to me as a professional writer.

I think the above is a decent start, and we can now start looking at past articles for any patterns and groupings.

First – do we have any existing groupings? I have not used categories in my word vomits, but I have used tags. Here are the tags: