Writing Schedule (June 7-13 2026)

07 Jun, 2026

I'm currently organizing some thoughts about blogging productively. I would like to approach my work more systematically. This is motivated by two things:

• I've been getting caught up in working on two novella-length short stories. They ambiently sap my productivity on other work (even when I'm not making progress on them), and they will each take ~1 month of consistent labor to finish.
• I would like to stop pushing only 1-2 posts per week. I want to be seeding growth in my readership by pushing out posts 3-4 times per week.

My current thought on how to do this is that every Sunday I draft a reading/writing schedule for the following six days. This post will be a template and example. I'll publish a couple of these to help iterate on this method, and once I've figured out the formula I'll keep these schedules private.

Monday (June 8th)

1. Finish reading "Hitler's Library." Review George Steiner's writing about the limited effect of great books and music on tempering the flaws in Hitler's character. Write and publish post about Hitler's reading habits.
2. Finish reading "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." Write at least 500 words of my Gawain story.
3. Write another pastiche for the post "Subscribe to my Substack." (3/6 done)
4. Do reading and notes for Machiavelli reading group.

Tuesday (June 9th)

1. Write at least 500 words of my Gawain story.
2. Write another pastiche for the post "Subscribe to my Substack." (4/6 done)
3. Push out blog post about the Gospel of Mark.
4. Write at least 500 words of my secret erotica.
5. Read 1/4 of Gospel of Luke.

Wednesday (June 10th)

1. Research attractiveness and femininity literature for the post "Consider feminizing your face."
2. Write 30 haiku for hidden post.
3. Read "Bouvard et Pecuchet."
4. Read up to 1/2 of Gospel of Luke.
5. Write at least 500 words of my Gawain story.
6. Write another pastiche for the post "Subscribe to my Substack." (5/6 done) (no post published)

Thursday (June 11th)

1. Finish and publish "Subscribe to my Substack."
2. Write at least 1000 words of my Gawain story.

Friday (June 12th)

1. Reread half of Shape of Space.
2. Write at least 1000 words of my Gawain story.
3. Write at least 500 words of my secret erotica. (no post published)

Saturday (June 13th)

1. Finish rereading the Shape of Space.
2. Publish Gawain story.
3. Finish King Lear.

Notes

• Broadly speaking, publishing should fall under four verticals: fiction, politics/philosophy, science/engineering/mathematics, cultural criticism and rant-content. Focus on the foreseeable future will be on fiction.
• I've started carrying around a little notebook. Sentence shards will still typically go into my notes app; longer draft-scraps of posts go into the notebook. Overheard conversation that I find funny go in either/both.

Diary

• LessOnline has been pleasant, but not earth-shaking. Supra-mid. Not particularly enjoying any of the panels, but I only went to four. Mainly schmoozing and yapping. I think I've learned literally nothing. However, it is very pleasant to see surprising combinations of people in my social network interacting and enjoying each other. The social network neurons in my brain be firing.
• There is no reason to feel status anxiety here, but I've been encouraging myself to feel status anxiety because I think it might be useful to some extent. Feeling resentment may be locally facilitative of producing more "ambitious" work (i.e. blogging harder), which in turn will probably make my life more interesting and ultimately more chill.