Yipes!Seth Godin wrote, “The growth of audiobooks is outpacing reading.”And here we are writing words.I like to read. I like to hold a book. I like to smell books. I like to feel their paper—and some of the covers these days feel like silk.
Don’t you sometimes wonder what happened to books, and when did bread disappear from our table, and how-come we must have a television in every restaurant?
I don’t know if thinking back is romancing the time, wanting to package it for the future, or believing we should get with it NOW.
Remember when you went to the library, and the librarian shushed you, but you cased the joint and found treasurers.
Ray Bradbury educated himself by starting at one side of the library and reading around it.
Now the internet can serve that same purpose.
It’s not better or worse, just different.
Remember when you went to record stores, and comic book shops and inspiration was out in the world, rather than at your desk. It had to be sought out, in museums, in the forests, and in picking up shells from the beach. And we didn't know what in the heck virtual reality was.
Am I showing my age?
Listen to your elders. If they are full of crap hit the delete button. If they speak the truth, embrace it.
Don’t you sometimes wonder what happened to books, and when did bread disappear from our table, and how-come we must have a television in every restaurant?
I don’t know if thinking back is romancing the time, wanting to package it for the future, or believing we should get with it NOW.
Remember when you went to the library, and the librarian shushed you, but you cased the joint and found treasurers.
Ray Bradbury educated himself by starting at one side of the library and reading around it.
Now the internet can serve that same purpose.
It’s not better or worse, just different.
Remember when you went to record stores, and comic book shops and inspiration was out in the world, rather than at your desk. It had to be sought out, in museums, in the forests, and in picking up shells from the beach. And we didn't know what in the heck virtual reality was.
Am I showing my age?
Listen to your elders. If they are full of crap hit the delete button. If they speak the truth, embrace it.
From #Marie Forleo.com, life coach, entrepreneur, writer:
If you want to be a writer, make these changes right now:
1. Speak it.
2. Write it.
3. Be it.
These are powerful tools that imprint your subconscious with whatever you desire. It could be if you want to be a writer, it could be something else.
If you want to be a writer, make these changes right now:
1. Speak it.
2. Write it.
3. Be it.
These are powerful tools that imprint your subconscious with whatever you desire. It could be if you want to be a writer, it could be something else.
If someone tells you your dream is unrealistic, that's a sure-fire reason you should go for it.
"Your life doesn't get more sensational with more followers on twitter."--Seth Godin.
“When you’re writing," said James Baldwin in an interview, "you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know. The whole language of writing for me is finding out what you don’t want to know, what you don’t want to find out. But something forces you to anyway.”
Remember James Baldwin? He was born August 2, 92 years ago, and was popular during the Civil Rights movement. He wrote Notes of a Native Son, The Fire Next Time, No Name in the Street, I Am Not Your Negro.
Nope, write what you don’t know.
Think of the discovery. Of course, you have to know it to write it, the point is find out.
"Your life doesn't get more sensational with more followers on twitter."--Seth Godin.
“When you’re writing," said James Baldwin in an interview, "you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know. The whole language of writing for me is finding out what you don’t want to know, what you don’t want to find out. But something forces you to anyway.”
Remember James Baldwin? He was born August 2, 92 years ago, and was popular during the Civil Rights movement. He wrote Notes of a Native Son, The Fire Next Time, No Name in the Street, I Am Not Your Negro.
Nope, write what you don’t know.
Think of the discovery. Of course, you have to know it to write it, the point is find out.
You know what?
Advertising works.
Larry King in an interview with Seth Godin said that Coca-Cola, the most recognized name around, decided for one month not to advertise. Why, they thought, everybody, knows about Coke.
During that month of not advertising Pepsi took them over by 12%.
Who would have thought it?
If you are in business and remember folks, and Joyce, remember this too, writing is a business. So to follow Seth's advice:
Tell the truth.
Stop talking to people who don't care.
Advertising works.
Larry King in an interview with Seth Godin said that Coca-Cola, the most recognized name around, decided for one month not to advertise. Why, they thought, everybody, knows about Coke.
During that month of not advertising Pepsi took them over by 12%.
Who would have thought it?
If you are in business and remember folks, and Joyce, remember this too, writing is a business. So to follow Seth's advice:
- Care about what you are doing
Tell the truth.
Stop talking to people who don't care.
“Write killer content.” I read when I opened a mentoring site.
“Yeah right!” I screamed. “Like we intend to write junk!”
“Knock my socks off, “ we hear. Remember that from the judges on #Project Runway. And #Tim Gunn saying , "Make it work."
Nobody sets out to write tripe. Everybody wants to write, paint, design clothing, design software, or whatever, making it killer stuff.
However, art like life is a process. I was once told by a teacher that all art is flawed. I wander if her ever viewed Michangelo's work? Point is though, that we rarely make it perfect.
When #Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love) investigated creativity she found that long ago people thought that “Genius” lie not within the person, but it lurked, as though hidden in the walls. Once in a while, this Genius would whisper to the artist. That was the stroke of genius.
Therefore being brilliant did not lie on the artist's shoulders alone. The artist couldn’t take all the credit when his work was good, neither could he take all the blame when it was bad.
Write for the joy of it, whether the genius visits or not.
Ta Da,
Joyce
“Yeah right!” I screamed. “Like we intend to write junk!”
“Knock my socks off, “ we hear. Remember that from the judges on #Project Runway. And #Tim Gunn saying , "Make it work."
Nobody sets out to write tripe. Everybody wants to write, paint, design clothing, design software, or whatever, making it killer stuff.
However, art like life is a process. I was once told by a teacher that all art is flawed. I wander if her ever viewed Michangelo's work? Point is though, that we rarely make it perfect.
When #Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love) investigated creativity she found that long ago people thought that “Genius” lie not within the person, but it lurked, as though hidden in the walls. Once in a while, this Genius would whisper to the artist. That was the stroke of genius.
Therefore being brilliant did not lie on the artist's shoulders alone. The artist couldn’t take all the credit when his work was good, neither could he take all the blame when it was bad.
Write for the joy of it, whether the genius visits or not.
Ta Da,
Joyce
