It happened
again. I come up with a tech project, associated with teaching, and I go at it
for all I’m worth. It’s a bit of problem solving, learning, and mind-stretching
that just sings to me.
Writing tugs at the same pieces of
me in different ways, but when it comes to tech projects, I get the instant gratification.
Writing is long-term, a slow game over weeks and months to wrangle a rough
draft out, then polishing it into something more is more weeks and months.
Tech projects get me right away. A
few minutes or few hours of working with some code or on a spreadsheet, and I’ve
got something workable. In one week I took a loose collection of code and
turned it into something I might be able to share with others. I might even be
able to turn it into something commercial.
At the same time, I miss the long
game. I want to get my writing back. I’m over halfway through the summer, and I
haven’t gotten it back yet.
I need to work harder at the long
game.