T/P/S – What First Steps Look Like
From JP | 05.08.2025
Thorns
Once I finally, earnestly started working on launching my website, I was ready to slam my head through a wall with how little I was able to navigate. I couldn’t get any of the building blocks to look or work the way I wanted, and I was having trouble finding helpful resources to guide me. It was exactly what I’d been dreading. No skill, no teacher, no map.
While it filled me with frustration and confusion, it also filled me with such a powerful desire to understand. There’s something important in that, I think, when it comes to writing. Past writing advice has taught me that not just strong emotions, but strong desires are what elevate a character into someone that a reader wants to follow. That desire to understand is a feeling that every writer should know intimately if they intend to craft a story about someone who grows.
Petals
Despite the initial hiccups, I did manage to launch the website. A lot sooner than I expected. All it took was a little breakthrough for the floodgates to open, and here we are.
No matter how much I want to make steady, consistent progress, I think it’s a mistake to entirely ignore how my mind naturally tends to work. I am a being driven by bursts of energy, and if I can identify where my mind wants to pull me, and remove the barriers blocking it, I will progress by leaps rather than steps.
Hidden Thorn: Careful, though. A leap is only better than a step if it’s in the direction you want to go in. Sometimes a tiny, painful step is better than a passionate, distracted leap.
Seeds
My website is my planted seed for the week, and I really want it to grow. That means deliberate, consistent care. Unfortunately, as we just established, that’s not exactly my forte. So what is it that I need to keep things up?
I need anticipation to carry over my enthusiasm from one day to the next. And that means leaving things undone. You can only anticipate that which hasn’t happened yet, so if you want to maintain your anticipation for something, you need to always leave something for tomorrow. But make sure that you’re sowing seeds of Anticipation rather than its sister, Dread. The difference is in the part that you choose to save for the next day.
Do the best part now, save the second best for tomorrow, fill today with the rest.
We’ll revisit how well I do with that next week.
Enjoy your Garden,
JP Violet
JP Violet 