Cluttered desk

I’m sitting behind my old desk. It’s filled with papers, pens, gadgets–cluttering everything. I know that I can’t think like that. I have to clean the desk. But I don’t.

Instead I just stare at the screen, thinking, pondering and mulling over all the things I should be doing. Righ now I opened the Ulysses writing app. I’m trying to get myself back to writing, starting with the small steps: filling random words in the journal. But eventually I need to start working on my book.

I know the first chapter of the book. I know how it supposed to begin: Apollo 13, “Houston, we have a problem”. We leave the astronauts to glide through the space, and go and look at the word “problem” itself, it has many meanings. After that, we can also look how good and bad problems have a tendency to never end: Problems as Medusa. Once you kill one problem, next snake head, meaner and nastier emerges. Problems are neverending. But that is a good things.

We, humans, are problem solvers. And by the effort of billion people, we solve billions of problems each day. Some of the solutions create more problems than expected, and so we have to move on. Like a Sysypos, once you have solved one problem, the next one emerges. But this what keeps our life interesting.

By the end of the chapter we should have reach a conclusion, and an understanding what a problem is. Not all problems should be solved, but some should be. And this book tries to help you in this path: It will be based on a simple mantra: Center, Enter, Turn. And here, we defined the terms, what each of these words mean in the context of solving problems.

I’m alrady 300 words in, my fingers are flying. I don’t have to think, only create and let the rivers flow their path. Feeling calm and relaxed, I know I could writer another 300 or 500 words wirhout any problems.

The problem with the book is not that I’m not writing it, but organization: I don’t see, how all of the material will be placed in a continuous way.

One way is to write a skeleton for each chapter, no matter if this is the skeleton I will use.