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Organizing is honestly just a lot of trying things until they work. I was surrounded by a lot of folks who were skilled and motivated, but also it was just like... Calling business and seeing which ones had free rooms we could reserve, reserving rooms at the library, talking to other anarchist spaces to find out when there were openings (if they even exist in your area). It's a lot of learning how to run meetings and learning when it's OK to let things fail... And a lot of working out conflicts between people who are organizing together.
It's both easier and harder than you would expect. I think our first meeting only a couple of people showed up. It was months of mostly nothing before there was a regular crew, then a lot of just figuring how we even organize before we were able to do anything. Patience, more than anything, made that part possible. But once more people started working together, it ended up feeling a lot easier and we were able to do a lot.
Maybe I'll write something up some time, but really it's a lot of "try and fail, and keep trying" and "listen to feedback without getting mad."