Your Minimal Requirements
Any of these sound familiar?
I need to research which of the 12 available software packages is the best suited for this project before I can begin
or
I can’t stand writing in anything other than a Moleskine/Field Notes/Rhodia notebook*
or
I have to go to France for 3 months to unlock my creativity
Maybe it’s time to re-evaluate your minimum requirements for production. Is your strict criteria merely procrastination in a smart suit? If your framework of pre-requisites is so complex and brittle that it prevents you from producing then perhaps you need to change your framework. Every dependancy that you choose to put in place is a tacit decision to delay starting. Your choice is whether those dependencies are reasons or excuses.
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I admit I have as much as a stationery fetish as the next *Muji shopper, but I’m just as likely to put my pen to the back of every envelope that crosses my path.