Friends of Fledgling Podcast
I spoke with Sammi LaBue of Fledgling Writers Workshop about self-publishing, embodied writing, metaphors, and so much more.
Creative Process
curation (or how the half-finished becomes whole?)
It's hard to decide what to put up on this site and what to leave aside. I wish I'd just had one site for the past decade, and everything would be there, whether I liked it or not.
I didn't move all of my
the shape of completion
I'm working on consolidating all of my work on this new Ghost site, and I'm thinking about what it would mean to feel complete. The blog or newsletter form often has a sense of incompletion – there's always a "next one" that you
Be ruthless in discerning what works for you
Now is a time to get deeper in our understanding of what is easeful for us.
Be ruthless in discerning what works for you.
Separate that which is uncomfortable because it is on your growth edge from that which is not yours to do.
Perhaps the ultimate "productivity hack&
Who sold us the idea that we need a tagline?
Appreciated Fred Tally-Foos' piece niching down is bad and inhuman about the idea that “we need to be able to give our elevator pitch, explain who we are in a concise way on a resume or an Instagram bio, and use that clarity to move forward in life.”
I
Sequencing
I’m a huge fan of Michelle Warner’s Sequence Over Strategy podcast. Her newsletter is great, too. She chooses stories from her own life to illustrate her main points about business design.
Doing things in the right order is more important than doing them perfectly.
She also emphasizes understanding
Several Short Sentences About Writing by Verlyn Klinkenborg
"There are innumerable ways to write badly. The usual way is making sentences that don’t say what you think they do."