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You should expect something brilliant to be written here, fairly–well every day. Because that’s something that’s going to happen. Or it won’t. Here’s why.

Professional writing is a difficult field, as one would rightfully imagine. Good thing I’m not getting paid, huh? Sigh.

Monday I spoke of writing something brilliant every day (or so). That was less telling you what to expect, and more of forcing me to have to be creative. By using you, the audience, as my witness, I keep myself accountable to the task. Write something brilliant today.

The etymology of the phrase ‘something brilliant’ in the d3ft.com usage means that I am to come up with some bit of information that my intended audience will find useful. The problem with telling you this now is that I have so very far to go to explain the explanation. It takes a while to set all this up.

As I was trying to figure out how to explain how I got to the point of having to come up with something rather brilliant every day, I realized I couldn’t really do that in one sitting. Nor in several, after I thought about it a while. Not that I couldn’t churn out a 10,000 epic blog post of such quality and veracity that it’d make your brain spin, but that it would take so much time to write that I would likely never get anyone to read the darn thing.

So I’m adopting a more progressively–enhanced approach. Instead of being like the man who decided to run a marathon on January 1, I’m going to research running techniques while I start working on my physical fitness. Continuing the allegory, if I’m able to ever run 26 miles, it will only be after I find out if my feet can handle the pounding, my heart can survive the endurance, and my body is ready for all that work. Much like I’m not ready to run the allegorical marathon, I’m just not ready to replace C.S. Lewis as an author.

Yet.

This could happen, however. If, of course, I get better as a writer. If I have the ability to ever get to that point. If that is something I am even capable of doing. I might not be capable of it.

There’s the point. For the next…rest of my life, I’ll be working at constantly writing smart things that are provocative and challenging. Things that inspire and confuse. It is my goal to be that guy who writes things that help people; brilliant things.