I recently was asked where I find the time to write and publish as often as I do. The simple answer? I watch very little television. That’s my magical solution.
Work Life
Do It Right the First Time
“Do* it right the first time.” I don’t usually think of the saying, but it defines the work I do. It’s why I research the articles I write. If I don’t know what a term means, such as “sidejacking,” I research the term. I usually learn more than I ever wanted to know about a topic with my “do-it-right-the-first-time” method, but I’m more than happy with the end result, a well-written article that best serves either this blog or a specific writing project.
Make Your Choice
I’ve been making many choices in relation to Write Right lately. For instance, I’ve been choosing a web host provider. I’ve also had to decide upon and to work with a WordPress theme because I’m no web developer, and I need a framework upon which to build.
Precipices and the Creative Life
To be a writer (insert “artist,” “musician,” et cetera) is to embrace fear. It’s to embrace a fear of failure. It’s to embrace a fear of success. It’s to embrace a fear of the known and the unknown.
The Things I Keep
I should subtitle this post “A Case of Copy and Paste.” I have learned, after spending some time with my two sites’ databases and after having someone else look at those databases, that I am not going to be able to import my old posts into my new site. I could let those posts remain on the old site – I probably will for at least a little while longer – but I would like to have them on the new one.
What is Failure?
Perhaps failure is a gift. Perhaps it’s the muse, as Hugh MacLeod suggests. Perhaps it isn’t the terrible thing it sometimes is made to be.