This Week’s Beautiful Mess comes from Makafui:

This is where I blog. This is how I blog. A post may take 1 hour or 3 days depending on how long I’ve been mulling it around the idea in my head. These days, it’s “easy” to blog, just relying on a laptop and the internet. I prefer to go “old school”. That means, notebooks, post-it-notes and books.
Some posts are born out of conversations or as responses to articles, other blog posts or as answers to questions. These posts don’t take too long to write. I’m usually writing from the heart or, articulating something that I’ve been mulling around for a while.

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Other posts, though, are born out of ideas. Ideas that came out of jotted notes on the corner of napkins, post-it-notes or notebook paper. These take a long time to write. Ideas are developed in notebooks, outlined on post-it-notes, researched in books and brainstormed on the screen…In the midst of all this, things get scattered across the desk, but there’s no time to clean up.

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Blogging takes a lot of creativity, focus and hard work but nothing beats having a complete post that I’m proud of, and that inspires at least one other person in the world.

Makafui writes about music, books and what I like to call inter-cultural competence – learning to live between two cultures when you’ve uprooted and moved to new home. Remembering what you left behind and opening up to what’s before you. Makafui is originally from Togo.

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You can be featured in this ongoing series, Beautiful Mess, that encourages Oisercage readers to live more and worry less about making messes. Life is about doing, not organizing. Check out other bloggers who’ve been featured here. To participate, see my my first Mess for details and the inspiration behind this project.