“In my experience, each failure contains the seeds of your next success—if you are willing to learn from it.”
— Paul Allen
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Posts Tagged ‘persistence’
Seeds of Success
Posted in Other, Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, creativity, failure, persistence, success, Thoughts, writing on November 15, 2024| Leave a Comment »
The Road Is Made of Words
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, creativity, persistence, Thoughts, Writers, writing, writing advice on October 27, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Write. There is no substitute…But start small: write a good sentence, then a good paragraph, and don’t be dreaming about writing the great American novel or what you’ll wear at the awards ceremony because that’s not what writing’s about or how you get there from here.
The road is made entirely out of words. Write a lot…it’s effort and practice. Write bad stuff because the road to good writing is made out of words and not all of them are well-arranged words.
— Rebecca Solnit
So write bad stuff. Good stuff too, just try not to worry too much about which is which.
Just keep going.
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With Fresh Delight
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, creativity, inspiration, persistence, Thoughts, Writers, writing on October 15, 2024| Leave a Comment »
“And so, does the destination matter? Or is it the path we take? I declare that no accomplishment has substance nearly as great as the road used to achieve it. We are not creatures of destinations. It is the journey that shapes us. Our callused feet, our backs strong from carrying the weight of our travels, our eyes open with the fresh delight of experiences lived.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
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You Can Do Anything! *
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, art, creativity, inspiration, itch reflex, NASA, persistence, the world-changing powers of caffeine, Thoughts, Writers, writing on September 1, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Onward, My Friends!
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, creativity, persistence, Thoughts, Writers, writing on August 26, 2024| Leave a Comment »
“Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely essential.”
― Jessamyn West
You’ve got this.
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Cuddle Time
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, persistence, Thoughts, Writers, writing on August 25, 2024| Leave a Comment »
“There is no way around hard work. Embrace it.”
— Roger Federer
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The Best Possible Use
Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, creativity, inspiration, persistence, Thoughts on August 18, 2024| Leave a Comment »
“Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.”
— Earl Nightingale
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On Resurrecting Habits
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, creativity, habits, persistence, Thoughts, Writers, writing on July 18, 2024| Leave a Comment »
A lot of my work relies on habit. Be it the day job, chores, calling the parental units, these daily posts or other creative work, I made space for everything in my week. When the time came, I’d do the thing. Easy and good, a puzzle with all the pieces in place.
The problem with a system like that? Change. When one of those pieces breaks, is lost, grows in size, or (running out of puzzle-related associations, but you get the idea) otherwise shifts in ways that alter the system, the associated habits can break too.
For a long time, my habit was to spend an hour or so writing with breakfast, then shift over to the day job. But when my work schedule changed, my dedicated writing time disappeared too.
In sum: I’m not writing enough. Grr.
Time to get back to basics and rebuild my schedule.
Step one? Remember that urgency isn’t everything. Make time for what’s important.
“Everything is habit-forming, so make sure what you do is what you want to be doing.”
— Wilt Chamberlain
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Word Power
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, creativity, persistence, purpose, Thoughts, Writers, writing on July 14, 2024| Leave a Comment »
“A word after a word after a word is power.”
— Margaret Atwood
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Begin, Again and Again
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, creativity, Fiction, persistence, Thoughts, Writers, writing on April 11, 2024| Leave a Comment »
“Beginning is underrated. Merely beginning. With inadequate preparation, because you will never be fully prepared. With imperfect odds of success, because the odds are never perfect. Begin. With the humility of someone who’s not sure, and the excitement of someone who knows that it’s possible.”
— Seth Godin
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