Hard reset
It's almost like I am being the Akhil Akkineni of writing space, relaunching a new way to write in my space. But, nothing wrong with trying new things until I stick to one right???!!!
Hello,
As much as I would love to introduce myself again and tell what I am doing now. I would like to firstly let you know that I am not going to promise you one post a week, because I understood, in this day and age,, asking for/setting up a routine is sin.
It feels as if I plan a routine, the exact opposite happens. Where as when I don’t plan anything, I have ample time to do things, but since no routine, I spiral out and stick to doomscrolling.
So, this stops now.
Atleast in my space, and for things I want to do.
If you know about me, I am all for being hopeful, being good and choosing to be good. So, would it not be a bit anti-climatic if I stopped being hopeful and completely the things I love in pursuit of things that souldn’t have happened happen.
Hence, this hard reset.
Reset for my mind, for myself, and ultimately in the work I do and love to do.
I would like to start posting again, but this time, it would be whenever things are ready. It could come out in 3 days, sometimes might take 10 days. But —
I intend not to cross 15 day threshold. This is something I am trying out new this time. I usually set a goal to post something every week and at times, when there is nothing to post I use to force myself and somehow, I lose interest in writing itself.
That is why, I am changing it. we’ll see.
So, the plan for now is -
I want to bring back the cycle of reading and writing, co-working together to keep my mind from rotting. So, I will be sharing things up until I have read (if it’s a long book, and also be writing personal thoughts along with it). parallel to that I intend to watch movies in a curated pattern of one director at a time. I think it will make more sense to me. I get to have one movie to go back to when I can’t find anything else interesting to watch.So, I plan on watching one movie a week from one specific director till his filmography is covered.
So, I decided to watch David Fincher first. I will cover his movies and talk about those…. once it’s done, I will move to the next director.
That doesn’t mean I won’t watch the latest releases (side thought, how excited are you for Coolie? I am waiting to see what Lokesh, Anirudh and my Superstar cooked up).
You can track those in my letterboxd.
Yeah, that’s about it. Thought to share here my rough sketch. Now what is left is the routine-less routine to follow.
Also, soon I will release a short story that I have written. I will give more details on that in the coming future. I have loads of work like re-editing, re-iterating and finalising on how to release it.
It’s a lot of work but excited.
I am 27 now, maybe it’s time to do things with intent as a boundary, but freewill while doing it - if that makes any sense.
Adding this outro from now on, as if I am writing a letter to friends in medieval times.
Your good friend,
Melvin.