Travis Eneix

There are several good guidelines to writing that I keep ignoring. The first is to not talk about your work when first drafting. Stephen King in his book On Writing has this wonderful quote given to him by an early teacher – “Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.” I tend to blather on, and as par for the course in my way of living if I have said something I consider it done. The blatant non-truth there is kind of shocking, isn’t it? I also look for the person I am telling to be wowed. Never remembering that the heard word is vastly different to the read word.

The second piece of advice is – once start the first draft of a project, get it done as quickly as you can. I meander, pause, and procrastinate. This makes the work either very incoherent, or helplessly wandering.

I need to not do these two things. Here’s to not doing them anymore.

Stumble it!