A few years ago, a Jenkins Group survey found that 80 percent of Americans would like to write a book. (You can count me in too!) The reality is not nearly as glamorous as we’d like.
PS. What’s up with all of the videos, covering generalizations about various careers, that have been floating around of late?
Greetings readers,
My blogging is also going to be linked over at the Young Professional Blog Aggregator. Right now it’s a short list of bloggers, including some from Brazen Careerist and others that creator Alex Fisher knows.
Over time it could be a one stop shop for Gen Y worker bee blogging headlines and trendlines.
If you’d like to be considered for aggregation, apply here.
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I keep telling people I have lots of ideas, that I’d love to pull into a novel, but I’m so worried about writing badly, I don’t even try.
As one friend pointed out to me — thinking about all the cars on the roads in the US. Very few are porsches that go from 0 to 60 in seconds. Writers are the same way, very few are brilliant coming out of the gate, which is why there are rewrites and multiple drafts.
Thanks Blue Gal!
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To sum it all up, if you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out and sent rambling.
You must write every single day of your life.
You must read dreadful dumb books and glorious books, and let them wrestle in beautiful fights inside your head, vulgar one moment, brilliant the next.
You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads.
I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime.
I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon you.
May you live with hysteria, and out of it make fine stories – science fiction or otherwise.
Which finally means, may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.
Thanks Melissa!
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