Encouragement

Congratulations; You’re Doing It!

August 31, 2010

The good news is that if someone tells you you’re doing it ‘wrong’ it means simply this: you’re doing it.

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John Cogan: Ideas Are Everywhere!

May 12, 2010

I make this distinction between ideas and encouragement to preface this video from John Cogan. John makes the observation that ideas are in fact everywhere! The challenge isn’t so much finding an idea, so much as committing to just one and developing it.

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Sometimes I Take Inspiration From Nature

March 17, 2010
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Sometimes I take inspiration from nature. I wonder what nature takes inspiration from…?

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Go Big or GTFO – But Just Keep Going!

March 4, 2010
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What if there was a territory that represented this struggle? Well, Ford Fiesta Movement team members Sam Proof and Jen Friel think there is. It’s the internet… or, erm, Los Angeles.

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Mary Richert on Struggle, Inputs and Inspiration

February 7, 2010
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Mary Richert – in her first Internet video ever – talks about some of her favourite books. In these pages she finds a lot of encouragement and inspiration. I really want to emphasise three points Mary makes in this video.

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JVC Picsio: A Christmas Miracle!

December 14, 2009
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You may remember that I recently wrote about the things I wanted for Christmas. One of those was the JVC Picsio video camera. Well I have a wonderful story to share with you about that…

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Dream By Example

November 19, 2009
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The truth is it is perfectly wonderful to hear about what authors are doing. It can be interesting to hear about other people’s creative processes and pitfalls. It can even be useful to listen to specific writing instruction. The power of I Should Be Writing is that ‘wannabe’ writers are consistently delivered back to their own hands.

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Madeleine Blais: Young People Need Pipe Dreams

May 27, 2009

As someone who has spent his time playing too much Super Mario Brothers, even the expression ‘pipe dream’ conjurs a very funny image in my head. But my attention was directed to an article in the Boston Globe from Madeleine Blais in which she muses over the advice she was to give to her graduating class of journalism students.

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