iPadWriMo took a back seat recently to some other important matters, and while I’m still going to compose all of my blog posts on the iPad through November, posting daily doesn’t seem so important. This is in part because I’ve become comfortable composing on an iPad much faster than I expected (Apple’s wireless keyboard is …
“The genius part is getting the lizard brain to shut up long enough…” – Seth Godin Writing is not that unlike almost any other work. We plan. We design. We create. We work. We produce. And we ship. Then, the only way we can give ourselves a chance of success and a sense of personal …
Following up on yesterday’s post about saying “no” to others’ demands so that you can say “yes” to an imaginative life, this post by SheWrite’s founder Kamy Wicoff offers more food for thought, a very public (and what couldn’t have been an easy” “yes” to her creative work: I realized that what I really need …
As some of you know, I’m a big fan of Cal Newport, book author and writer at Study Hacks, a blog which explores “patterns of success.” His most recent post, “Welcome to the Post-Productivity World,” speaks to a lot of what I’ve been thinking about lately in terms of time, writing, and big-picture living: Productivity, …
From John Holt, author, editor, and education reformer: [F]rom the age of 11 I felt left out, and never more so than when I was in school. I think that for most children in our society the experience of growing up is an experience of being left out, partly because of our worship of beauty, …