Have any other Thoughtwrestlers been watching this season of HGTV’s DesignStar? We are not going to discuss how the network has ruined a perfectly enjoyable show by handing it over to Mark Burnett. We are also not going to discuss my dark horse pick for who I think is going to win. Instead, we are going…
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Dealing with the lonely pursuit of creative work
Much creative work is solitary and/or lonely. The act of trying to create something that no one has ever seen or said before is something that has to be done alone, by definition. Even while working in teams or with a collaborative partner, you must still extract your thoughts and ideas and give them form….
Dig something big
There’s a quote from the afterword to Stephen King’s The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger (the first book in his excellent series of novels about Roland the gunslinger, his ka-tet, the Man in Black, and the Dark Tower) that has been imprinted in my mind ever since I read it. I thought I’d share it with…