Write While True
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Write While True
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Write While True
A weekly podcast
Episodes of Write While True
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There's a hole in this process, and we need to fill that right now. This only works if you're doing the lead activities consistently, and if they really do build up to the end goal. It's true that working on the book is intrinsically fun and in
As I mentioned in the past two episodes, I'm trying to write a short book, and I want to share the process as I'm going through it. For example, to help me structure my time, I'm using the book The Four Disciplines of Execution.In the last
My wildly important goal is to publish a fifty page book on a topic in my industry by the end of 2024. I defined it using the SMART goal format (S. M. A. R. T.), which means it's specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. This
For season four, which I'm starting right now, my plan is to take you through my process as I try to write a short, focused book. I expect it to be about 50 pages. I call this kind of book a pamphlet.4DX: Applying the First DisciplineW
The white pastel can draw white on top of the charcoal, so now I can make white marks, which can also be smudged and mixed. It's giving me a range of values I couldn't get before. Throwing white highlights onto a dark drawing is a way of direct
I’m reading a book by Stanley Fish called How to Write a Sentence. I found this book by Googling that exact question because I wanted to find anything that might be a fit for what I'm podcasting about this season.How to Write a Sentence by
Today I want to talk about one of the rules that's in Strunk and White. It's actually in almost every book about writing, which is to use the active voice and to prefer it over the passive voice.Larry McEnerney analyzes the Gettysburg Addr
The advice applies to any kind of writing. It resonated with me because I feel like I might be having that problem in my written work. That sometimes my writing feels like a stack of paragraphs. I am feeling the lack of propulsion that John and
I recently came across the phrase zombie nouns, which was coined by Helen Sword. She's an author and currently runs a private consultancy to help writers. Back in 2012, she was teaching at the University of Auckland in New Zealand, and she wrot
What we're trying to do is we're trying to learn how to recall fit words when we need them in our writing. To get better at that, we need to be exposed to more interesting words and to practice using them. Imagine situations where they would be
The idea of collecting quotes is not something new. I think that's the way most people think of note taking in general. There's even a style of journal some people keep called a Commonplace book, which builds on this idea. In a Commonplace book
I think one sentence from David Lambuth really sums up what I want to say about paragraphs. Here it is.There is no absolute rule for paragraphing. Your own feeling must be your guide.The Golden Book on Writing by David LambuthThe
I’m going to use these three books again for today’s topic, which is the order of words in a sentence.I love that these books tackle mundane topics, things that seem innate, but aren’t. I mean, we can order words into something grammatical
Every book on writing tells you to avoid adverbs (and even adjectives). I find that hard to do in first drafts, but I do try to remove them in edits. You can tell that I haven't done enough editing if you see that I "really like" something or t
Last week, I spoke about something very fundamental—how to write complex sentences, and I'm going to continue along in that theme for what I'm now calling season three, drawing lessons from some of what I consider the greatest books about writi
I like to sketch, mostly with pencil and charcoal on paper. One of the first things I needed to learn was how my drawing tools and the paper interacted. What kind of mark did each level of pencil hardness make, and how was that different from c
This is the fourth and final episode in a series I'm doing about the book Art & Fear by David Bayles and Ted Orland.In this, the final episode of the series, I'm going to tell you what they think you need to be in order to be an artist.
I decided to do a four-part series on the lessons I learned from Art & Fear by David Bayles and Ted Orland.This week, in part three, I want to talk about a quote about what art means to the maker.Art & FearWrite While True Episode
I reread the book Art and Fear by Bayles and Orland and they had so many ideas for how to get people to make art, that it worked for me to start my blog going again, and then ultimately restarting this podcast.For part two of this four part
One of the things that got me back to podcasting after a two year break was rereading Art & Fear by David Bayles and Ted Orland.This time, while I was reading it, I kept a lot of notes and found four themes that resonated with me and helped
We just passed the second anniversary of the break that I didn't come back from right away.I know exactly what was going on. I had a lot of travel to visit family and for work and it was just hard to find the time to plan and record podcast
When I was done with a journal, I’d put it on the shelf with others. I do a good job of making sure to transfer anything important to a real tracking system at the end of the day, so there wasn’t much in the journal that I thought would be usef
I've been using a paper journal for years. Even when I worked on big teams, I still kept a separate journal with my personal daily tasks and schedule. For years, I just used a single journal for everything. I'd just go through it and then start
When I was 13, my mom got me an electric typewriter for Christmas. She was a secretary, and she taught me how to touch type, and she wanted me to have something to practice on. But unfortunately, when I opened it up, it didn't work.Write W
If you are just coming to this podcast on this episode, I have to tell you that I talk about Morning Pages a lot. It was the subject of Episode 1. Listen to that for the full description of what they are or read the book The Artist's Way by Jul
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