Tag Archives: creativity

The Genesis of A Novel Isn’t That Important

When­ever I begin a novel,” he said, “the begin­ning never stays at the begin­ning. It ends up in the mid­dle, or near the end. It never stays put where I started.” That is an inter­est­ing quote from Philip Graham’s lat­est post on writ­ing a novel and how to approach it. It’s eye open­ing to me

Writing A Lot

I ran across this post today on Hacker News. The short syn­op­sis of the post is Sebas­t­ian explain­ing how he writes so much but it’s def­i­nitely worth read­ing the whole thing. I wanted to con­sider a cou­ple of thoughts he brings up. For the 4 or 5 peo­ple who still reg­u­larly check in here, it

The Gap Between Taste and Ability

I recently ran across this video of Ira Glass talk­ing about the huge gap that exists between your taste in cre­ative endeav­ors and your abil­ity to cre­ate. I’ve always implic­itly known this gap existed but this is the first time I’ve heard or seen it vocal­ized so clearly. I think most cre­ative peo­ple strug­gle with