All right, so the goal is six weeks of pieces up and ready to go by 12/16. And that leads to a question: Above and beyond simply making the pieces exist, what should my goal for this stretch of writing be? What am I hoping to accomplish?
Let's start with my primary work-related goal of 2017: I want to earn a comfortably self-supporting income, centered around my writing. I haven't managed to accomplish that in a long, long time, and it's been incredibly corrosive to many aspects of my life. Time for that to change.
So what I put up over the next six weeks (and beyond) needs to be supportive of that goal. Okay, excellent. That's a good starting point. But there's one more thing: it's important to me that the living I earn be in line with the Free Refills principles. What are the Free Refills principles? Clearly I have some explaining to do. (Watch this space.) The summary version is this: in a digital world (a world in which Our Cups Runneth Over), continuing to focus your efforts trying to make a living as a content creator based on our old capitalist models of scarcity not only no longer makes sense, it's counterproductive.
Interest piqued? Good. This understanding will guide my creative process as I create my pieces for the next six weeks.