When it works for me creativity feels like I’m remembering something that hasn’t happened yet.
process
Author raises $1m to self-publish Order of the Stick webcomic book
“Unless you have the marketing department of a large corporation behind you, you’re not likely to get enough people to take a chance on your unknown property, even through Kickstarter,“ Burlew said. “On the other hand, if you give it away first, people will form their opinion of you and your work before you ask them for money. And readers are a lot more likely to spend money on things they know they like than things they hope they will like. People want to own what they love, so rather than selling access to the content, sell the permanent incarnation of it – be that a book or an ebook or a DVD or whatever. The best thing about giving away your content first is that when it comes time to sell the final product, you’re going to have almost 100% customer satisfaction. No one is going to complain that they didn’t like the story they bought, because every one of your customers knew they liked it before paying.”
I often write on the stairs.
Time is slower there.
Charles “Sparky” Schulz Draws Charlie Brown (Official Video)
How To Swim And Write
“Whatever your idea is, don’t dwell on it. The execution is the important thing, not the idea. Ideas are shit. Anyone can have an idea and most people usually do.” »
Make Your Kid A Writer
“Let her be bored. Let her have long afternoons with absolutely nothing to do. Limit her TV-watching time and her internet-playing time and take away her cell phone. Give her a whole summer of lazy mornings and dreamy afternoons. Make sure she has a library card and a comfy corner where she can curl up with a book.
Give her a notebook and five bucks so she can pick out a great pen. Insist she spend time with the family. It’s even better if this time is spent in another state, a cabin in the woods, a cottage on the lake, far from her friends and people her own age. Give her some tedious chores to do. Make her mow the lawn, do the dishes by hand, paint the garage. Make her go on long walks with you and tell her you just want to listen to the sounds of the neighborhood.
Let her be lonely. Let her believe that no one in the world truly understands her. Give her the freedom to fall in love with the wrong person, to lose her heart, to have it smashed and abused and broken. Occasionally be too busy to listen, be distracted by other things, have your nose in a great book, be gone with your own friends. Let her have secrets”
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How to Be an Award-Winning Blogger
“Sometimes you have to pry open your chest with a rib spreader, and reach inside yourself, and tear out your heart, and throw it on your blog with a wet slap!”
Paul Greer 