This will be the 30th post of at least 500 words I have written this month. (I did somewhat cheat two days ago, by making a 500+ word edit to Legitimate Deliberation, which I also posted independently as a shortform.)
Inkhaven has been very much what I was hoping for. I have been wanting to write more, and this certainly did the trick. I think it will be easy to hit a once-a-week target now, something I was struggling to do before.
I came with lots of drafts I wanted to finish, and outlines, and lists of ideas. Now I've got 29 posts, many of which probably would have come into existence without Inkhaven, and certainly not so quickly.
The Inkhaven posts are certainly of lower quality, for the most part, than what I usually do. I had to average at most a day on each, by design. Many of my posts are even lower-effort sacrifice posts written quickly so that I can spend more time on a few high-effort posts such as Condensation.
During the second week, I was feeling too exhausted to write by the afternoon of each day (but recovered somewhat by the evening, to finish [...]
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First published:
November 30th, 2025
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/aY9ADGuvAmguLDFgP/inkhaven-retrospective-1
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