On Journaling

The cultivation of skill takes time and requires patience. Your writing will not get better until you have written many, many pages.

Journaling is a good way to accomplish this.

The Clarity of Success

When we have a distinct idea of what success look like, successes of other types tend to occur that are unrelated.

Interestingly, these other successes are most likely the result of the work you do in pursuit of your own true goal.

The Writing Minute

The writers and artists of today are very lucky. We have access to our work wherever we are. The time has gone where we were limited to a desk and paper.
 
Now while waiting on line, or pumping gas, or some other monotonous activity, we can write.
 
Our technology, at the risk of sounding…

The Distracting Screen

The first draft of writing works better without the screen. Yes, our computers are amazing tools that benefit the writer greatly. The possibilities that a computer brings are numerous.

That’s the problem.

The Misunderstanding of Writing

We always talk about writing and wanting to be writers. Many, many people want to be writers or known as writers.

But what does that mean?

If we are writing fiction, does the time we spend researching background for our…

The Method

The method is intensely personal; it has to be.

There is an industry devoted to the other side of the method, though. All of us at one time or another have followed the “cult of how.”

Quality vs. Quantity

Why write a blog post every day? Seth Godin recommends it. Tim Ferris does not. The conflict between quality and quantity…

The Paragraph and the Page

When we are out of practice, a paragraph may be the best thing we can expect. This is not an indication of our skill. In fact, the paragraph can be a good indication of how far we’ve come.

A Solitary Apprenticeship

Our apprenticeship is harder than most. We don’t have a master to guide us. Well, we do have the MASTERS, but all that they left us is their work. Maybe we get lucky and find a journal or two — something, anything, to give us some insight into how they did it. It won’t do much good…