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ArjinFerman  Tinfoil Gigachad  1d ago (text post)   300 thread views

Tinker Tuesday for July 14th, 2026

This thread is for anyone working on personal projects to share their progress, and hold themselves somewhat accountable to a group of peers.

Post your project, your progress from last week, and what you hope to accomplish this week.

If you want to be pinged with a reminder asking about your project, let me know, and I'll harass you each week until you cancel the service.

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I've been putting off working on my next album for too long. My plan is to pick up my guitar every day, and keep playing it until I come up with one interesting riff or chord progression. Hopefully if I keep at it for a month or so I'll have enough ideas that I can start assembling them into songs. Yesterday evening was productive.

I have noticed a lot of creative pursuits are like this; getting anywhere is far more about fostering mundane, day-to-day discipline than it is about feverish bouts of lightbulb-brained inspiration like the stereotype would suggest. The people I know who do this wait far too long to know what they want to make, and in the end barely make anything. Far more important is to get into a routine of just working on something everyday, honing your skill as you go on, and even if 95% of it is shit that 5% of good, worthwhile material will accumulate overtime.

100%. Every successful novelist will tell you the importance of writing 1,000 words a day, every day, even if (especially if) you don't feel like it or don't feel "inspired".

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