John Cage
John Cage chose music, he said, because “The people who heard my music had better things to say about it than the people who looked at my paintings had to say about my paintings.”
Tag: writing
Amy Tan on writing
“As I write a story, I have to be open to all the possibilities of what these characters are thinking and doing and what might apply. For me, the best way to do this is writing longhand, the way I write the early drafts of a novel.”
Good writing is as much about what you don’t say
You don’t have to spell everything out. Not every thought needs to be explained. Sometimes you convey a fuller world by leaving things out.
Procrastination IS sometimes your enemy
There’s Bad Procrastination, the kind that makes us chase shiny objects and be lost in the rabbit hole of the interwebs.
No literary genre ever really dies
Storytelling genres and formats come in and out of fashion. But they never truly disappear. They periodically return, and sometimes they just remain in disguise.
The birth and rise of a global communication journal
Profile of my friend Dr. Gary Radford and the Atlantic Journal of Communication, which he has led for several decades.
Not all geniuses are lone
We all benefit from creative collaborators, well-informed advisors, candid beta readers, and others who challenge and inspire us. Feeback helps us filter our own ideas.
How to publish an email newsletter
Should I create an email newsletter? Do I really want to make this commitment? Is this really going to achieve my objectives? Will anyone read this thing?
Procrastination isn’t always your enemy
Sometimes procrastination is a way for your mind to work on solving a problem, or a way of telling you to go down a different path.