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If I learned anything from NaNoWriMo and from Stephen King's "On Writing", the labor counts much more than creativity. My 400,000 words of novel-writing (and c
by thirdtruck 14y ago
If I learned anything from NaNoWriMo and from Stephen King's "On Writing", the labor counts much more than creativity.
My 400,000 words of novel-writing (and counting) might only contain a few gems, but it contains far more than the empty page of someone still waiting for inspiration to strike.
Sitting down and pounding out whatever you can for an hour or two a day will make you a successful writer faster than anything other than actually writing.
- SatvikBeri 14y agoDerek Sivers has another good article on this: http://sivers.org/qlq http://sivers.org/qlq I think the general 10,000 hours theory suggests that for the first ~2,000 hours of a new skill, all practice is deep practice (exact # of hours depends on the skill, of course.) That means that for the first few years, quantity of practice is more important than anything else. You'll eventually hit a plateau and need to practice in a different way to continue improving, but that will only ever apply to a few skills throughout your lifetime.
- thirdtruck 14y agoThat makes sense. Amusing how it fits so well into the 80/20 rule, too. One might need those 8,000 additional hours to level-up into the next Tennessee Williams but - as emphasized in 4-Hour Chef and elsewhere - just 2,000 hours puts your far beyond 95% of the world.