That is what it came down to… one word that ended… well it ended a writing streak that lasted 240 days. A streak where I turned in pages every day writing about anything and everything, some with focus, some without but all of it with a purpose. The goal is to write a minimum set of words day each to get the streak going. I got up to 240 (ish) days and then missed out on it by one...
If you’re working with a team and no one is following you then you haven’t done the work necessary to reach them. If you haven’t done the work necessary to reach them, then you are focusing on the wrong things. If you are focusing on the wrong things, your team doesn’t know what to work on next. If your team doesn’t know what to focus on next, they are going to...
When the format is more important than the content of what we are creating, we have started down a path that is hard to recover from. It’s hard to recover because the writer worries more about the look than the content because that is what they have learned they will be judged on first before anything else. As the adage goes, Content is the King (and the Queen, and the rook, and the bishop...
I don’t have a demo, but there are a few people I know who this is their thing, this is what they strive towards and toil on, late in the evening and early the morning. Will you listen to my demo? Will you take time out of your day to listen to everything that I have poured into this one cassette, CD, DVD, MP3, iTunes song. There is something great about having someone approach you and say...
When you’ve committed to a solution and are midway through the project, you’re in, there is no out (unless it is so bad that everyone is throwing up their hands, toss keyboards over their walls and generally ready to storm the cloud in the hopes of pulling it down). But you’re not there, you’re working with a solution that might not be perfect but it’s 90% of what...