Writer's Resolve

A Writer’s Resolve  with Nightcafe AI

“It’s all Amit’s fault”.

Having been instigated by Amit Verma, I’ve been writing this column for a little over two years now. 

My intent was to write largely about the economy, policy, and money management.

A little bit about the mountains. 

About movies, and more.

Pretty soon, the ‘more’ took over, and I was writing about anything that caught my fancy - a less kind way of describing this would be to say that Gimme Mo is all over the place. 

Like me. 

I don’t think that’s going to change. I don’t see myself as an expert on anything, but I have a wide range of interests, and if I have an interesting experience, or a fresh (for me) insight on anything, I will write about it.

The discipline of a weekly column has been good for me; the very act of ‘planting bum on seat’ forces you to engage with your thoughts, and there is a delight when the process of writing leads you far away from where you began, and hopefully a couple of angstroms deeper.

Sometimes, though, the deadline becomes an end in itself, and I have forced myself to turn out words that qualify as a post, but don’t satisfy me. This should not happen.

As a form of New Year’s resolve, I have been thinking about this tension, between a weekly post, and meaningful writing. My intent, now, is to treat the Sunday post, not as an end in itself, but as the outcome of a week of thinking and writing. 

Mo writing - but not necessarily more words to weigh down your weekend.

New Year’s resolutions are notoriously hard to keep, but I deeply mean this one.

Thank you for being a reader.