Don’t let yourself off the hook with excuses. Jason Fried, Rework No matter how many times you do something, there’s always more to discover. Take, for instance, writing a novel. You can be the kind of person that takes years to complete a draft only to throw it out and start over, then move on …
Every artists knows you don’t make the things you make, you submit to the things you make. Andrew Klavan Took me a while to get here, but I’ve finished my preliminary review of Residuum. Ever since I got it into my thick skull that I needed to facilitate a return to focusing on my creative …
In short, we can only learn from our “betters.” Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading With the first week of school in the books and a weekend of family time at a close, I’m running up on the clock here so I guess it’s time for another …
You have as many options as you give yourself. Kasie West, The Distance Between Us Greetings, Dwellers. Today has provided a bit of a challenge in discerning a topic. Some of you may remember I had an outline of weekly topics for the entire year, and while yes, that’s still true, sometimes I lack the time …
Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings. Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft I like to think there are two kinds of budding creatives: the ones that hate everything they make until they get to editing, and the ones that love …
Are you managing your energy well and using it for things that matter? Do you stop to recharge before you push yourself to critically low levels? Unplug to recharge. Susan C. Young I didn’t have the foresight to write something earlier in the week when there was actually time to think about things, so now …
Don’t let your dreams be dreams. Yesterday, you said tomorrow. So just… do it! Shia LaBeouf It’s amazing what one extra day can do. May has been… a hell of a month. Personally, professionally… some other -lly’s I can’t think of right now. The details are mostly irrelevant, but suffice it to say the candle …
Few things are more important than finding a home and working at it constantly to make it resonate with deep memories and fulfill deep longings. Thomas Moore Summer is coming. Yes, I know, the only thing I like more than making references my kids don’t understand is making plays on really dated references. The point …
Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes. P.J. O’Rourke, All the Trouble in the World Another short non-post because, well, I thought it better to spend as much time with the missus as I could. So, I did. I promise, though, I’ll be back in action next week! …
Time is the longest distance between two places. Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie I may be prophetic. When I set my goal of a post a week back in December, I plotted out what I figured I’d write about, tagging each week with a title and brief concept of the idea, if necessary. When I …
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