This is the first edition of a community spotlight series for First Draft Club, called Why I Write. I asked @sean07.eth to be the first participant for this new experiment since I knew he would deliver; Sean has posted every week he has been a member of First Draft Club (11 for 11) and often does so well before the Sunday deadline. He also created his own onchain writing app and regularly experiments with different forms of writing. I sent over a few basic questions for him to answer for this ..

Welcome back to the First Draft Club newsletter! After publishing here in October and November, I took a couple months off from long-form updates. However, it makes too much not to return to written updates for a writing program. For the rest of 2025, I’m committing to giving monthly public updates on First Draft Club. I’m thinking of these as "investor updates”, as they are an opportunity to explore the larger questions about how the project is going.

A record month for participation, boosted by a surprising reward pool. This month, we're experimenting with prompts – make sure to follow @firstdraftclub.eth on Farcaster

Welcome to the First Draft Club newsletter! I've used my personal Paragraph publication to make announcements in the past, but I figured it's time to "spin out" a publication specifically for the project. For now, you can expect casual updates every month or so.

It’s 8:30am, 30 minutes before my self-imposed “deadline” for getting this done. Normally, when there are no external motivators, I won’t hold myself accountable. A “deadline”, a calendar block, or even a reward won’t work for getting myself to do something that I don’t exactly want to do in the moment. There are many reasons that people may struggle to write.