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RE: How Important is it to Find "Meaning" in Your Work?
Writing and war gaming, woohoo!
I have come up with a little bit of a 'breakthrough', actually, with wargaming rules.
I'm still working through it - it will take some time - but it could be 'potentially' a radical change to the whole hobby...
If it all works out - which is it doing so far - that will be writing and war gaming!
I would love to say it was through years of study and applied effort. It wasn't. (in the slightest)
https://steemit.com/blog/@lucylin/a-eureka-moment-when-the-lights-went-out
"Game changers" have a way of showing up unexpectedly and suddenly. Looks like you "have" something, based on a quick read of your post... even if it WILL take time to develop. But it will be totally worthwhile... few things beat "playing with our hobbies for a living." Like I did with beach combing, for a while.
No, not years of study and applied effort. But years of random observations and remembering things... you then assemble into a new way of looking at the same picture, a way nobody else has happened to think of.
This is very interesting timing - and I'm not sure how much of an influence your thread had on it..(impossible to quantify these things)...but
I am writing my book, and putting some parts of it, (well lot's) on steemit as I go along - and then doing an online book thingy ( I have no idea what I'm doing as yet, in all honesty - but I'm doing it anyway...)
Staying in the 'real world' side of things - political /philosophical/economic discussions, while interesting, and I likeposting on such things - is just not conducive to the creative side of me.
But I have found the answer ... seriously...honest...lol
yesterday musings...
https://steemit.com/blog/@lucylin/a-change-of-direction-something-something-writing
...this seems to be the trick for me...
I posted my first part of it today...
And this more than free's up my time to pursue the war gaming rules side at the same time..
I have decided to change my focus..
I'll post almost everyday (my story), and include links to the previous parts...
https://steemit.com/blog/@lucylin/i-haven-t-got-a-title-snippets-part-1
Just going to answer quickly here, while this is fresh in my mind:
Did you ever follow/read @ericvancewalton? He was one of the first people to serialize a book on Steemit, and he did extremely well for himself.
Just my quick observation... just like I have recently been taking a look at some of my old blogs and giving them a fresh coat of paint, I think perhaps what happens is that we need a few months (in my case, a little over a year!) to simply "sort out" what we want our direction to be. As I write this, I have added somewhere on the north side of 600 "essays" to Steemit, and I am just NOW finding the "voice" I used to have.
So, I'm guessing you found your direction. Or something that at least feels like your direction.