So, I begin with “why do anything at all when some project or task exhausts more energy than others—is it all just a means to an end to fulfill some desire or distract from some angst?” When it comes down to writing, publishing, and marketing a book, is it done on a surface level…
“Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.” —T.S. Eliot When I start writing a book, specifically a poetry book, I begin with two foundations to ensure its success: a poetry book outline and a poetry writing process with a template. The poetry book outline is the broader picture of the book, asking the following…
The System! Here we are in the final stretch and the part that separates the amateur dreamer from the professional – systems. Systems are much cooler than goals, and like ideas, goals are usually just fancy fantasies toward the desired result. The problem with goals is that they set you up for failure, e.g., I…
SMARTER BETTER FASTER By now, we’re all familiar with the purpose of goals to help us aim at something. Sometimes when we have an aim or a destination to shoot for, most people’s plans are not specific enough to lead them into action and evaluation. In the book, Goal Setting for Writers, the author introduces…
