Given my poetics and my ultimate goal to create beautiful books that people could return to again and again for spiritual nourishment, I've chosen to practice writing through a practice that relies on habits, routines, and a system called talahardin.

One of the talahardin's promise is to make writing easier. It does this in two steps: (1) writing is done iteratively in small chunks (ideally, every day) and as this goes on (2) the talahardin builds an archive of possible writing projects to develop. In other words, the talahardin makes writing easier by making it actionable and ensuring that I have a cornucopia of things to write about.

Daily writing practice

My writing practice is anchored in a daily writing practice that involves a balance of my journaling process and my studying process. Both of these processes produce notes in my talahardin.

Maintaining multiple speculative outlines

I don't run out of things to write about because as I write iteratively every day within the talahardin, I also maintain multiple speculative outlines about specific subjects (sometimes answering a question), which I track in an index of speculative outlines. Regular iterative writing within the talahardin would develop these outlines to the point where they could be easily written as an article by themselves.

Using an editorial calendar

See editorial calendar.

Creating publishable writing artifacts

Depending on the species of note in the talahardin, a note could be shareable or publishable as it is. Often, these notes are 04 notes/evergreens. For prose, the talahardin writing strategy is what I follow to create publishable writing artifacts.

Publishing

While there are several publishing strategies for digital gardeners, I choose to mainly self-publish using my newsletter (see my newsletter strategy) and zines or books. Sometimes, I would also apply for publication in existing journals, publishers, or small presses.

To do

• Expand this note by describing how to create books using the talahardin.