Failing again. Failing better.
I’ve been paying more attention to my reading and writing this year, looking at when I sit down to write or read, how long I write/read, how carefully I write/read, and other metrics. And when I looked back at my notes, I found myself making certain comments about the data. Things like “I can’t write…
This weekend my wife and I went to the driving range. We split a bucket of balls and started working on our golf swings. I finished before my wife, who was having trouble correcting a slice. Because this was a problem I had been working on recently, I decided to give her a couple pointers…
Yesterday, I was feeling a little down. I’m retooling a short story, and all I could hear was my internal critic trashing it. So I was primed for a bunch of articles about talent versus practice. These articles kicked me in the butt and got me working again. It’s funny, though. I didn’t expect a…
Here’s a link to an 18-minute presentation by Seth Godin. Although his talk is primarily aimed an entrepreneurs, I think there are some great lessons for writers and other creatives as well. Seth Godin tells his audience that they are creative enough, that having creative ideas is fairly easy. The hard part is executing those…