for me, inkhaven was a lot of fun. can hugely recommend. one very important thing is that you need to dedicate effort to being agentic about your writing and your goals. i somewhat didn’t, and that meant that i didn’t get nearly as much value out of it as i hoped for.
A specific failure mode I experienced was that I was told that there would be scheduled time with a coach to think about the goals for the writing and other things; and so I outsourced these things to the time that would’ve been dedicated to them; but then, it was never actually scheduled.
So I almost never thought hard about what I want to do, having cached that there is a dedicated time for that; and so way over half of my posts were written because I needed to write something, and not because I was actively trying to write something for some reason other than “I’ll need to have published a post every day”.
I did not go hard on writing awesome things; did not really experiment with different styles and genres; did very little editing, despite initially setting out to spend a lot more time editing pieces than writing them (including because that was how I turned into a good writer in Russian). I did very little thinking about how do I want to improve.
Sadly, I only realized a couple of days before the end of November. I think I could’ve gotten at least 10x more value out of Inkhaven if I figured out earlier that this was going on.
for me, inkhaven was a lot of fun. can hugely recommend. one very important thing is that you need to dedicate effort to being agentic about your writing and your goals. i somewhat didn’t, and that meant that i didn’t get nearly as much value out of it as i hoped for.
Can you say more about what being agentic would have looked like?
A specific failure mode I experienced was that I was told that there would be scheduled time with a coach to think about the goals for the writing and other things; and so I outsourced these things to the time that would’ve been dedicated to them; but then, it was never actually scheduled.
So I almost never thought hard about what I want to do, having cached that there is a dedicated time for that; and so way over half of my posts were written because I needed to write something, and not because I was actively trying to write something for some reason other than “I’ll need to have published a post every day”.
I did not go hard on writing awesome things; did not really experiment with different styles and genres; did very little editing, despite initially setting out to spend a lot more time editing pieces than writing them (including because that was how I turned into a good writer in Russian). I did very little thinking about how do I want to improve.
Sadly, I only realized a couple of days before the end of November. I think I could’ve gotten at least 10x more value out of Inkhaven if I figured out earlier that this was going on.