Write little and often

There was a discussion on the Autofocus forum if this method could be used for writing. Some argued writing needs to be difficult. I experimented with a “little and often” approach to it. It goes like this.
The text has marks in it (I’ll tell you more in a minute). The whole process is iterating these steps.

Pick a marked part and work on it. Write as much as you like, be it only a line or many paragraphs.
If you feel it isn’t finished yet, put a mark at the end of it.

A mark consists of

some special character not used elsewhere in your text (e.g. the “#” sign)
a page number in Autofocus sense
an index within a page, I use letters for this

So the very first mark is #1a, then #1b, #1c, etc. Since there are 26 letters, you can have 26 items on one page. You can have as many pages as you want, but I prefer to have only one-digit page numbers, so when I’m done with the first page (with marks #1a, …, #1z), I start numbering pages from 1 again.

An Autofocus-like discipline can be applied, too. In the first round, pick a part whose mark starts with #1. In the next round, you can pick any part that starts with #1, or if there is none, move on to the #2 parts.

TaskBerry

the fun of discipline