I have no words to offer which may comfort the reader who is also a castaway, except that rescue may come at any time but not necessarily when you expect it;
and that even if you give up hope, you must never give up trying, for, as the result of your efforts, hope may well return and with justification
— Dougal Robertson, Sea Survival
via @mariapopova
https://www.themarginalian.org/2023/02/28/sea-survival-dougal-robertson/
#Life #Hope #Desperation #mjbDoTheWork #Resilience #AntiFragile
Because I wrote a book called *Steal Like an Artist*, some people think I’m really interested in plagiarism. Actually, I’m much more interested in *forgery*.
“Plagiarism is the flip side of forgery,” wrote Andrew Potter in *The Authenticity Hoax*. “Forgers pass off their own work as that of someone else, while plagiarists pass off the work of others as their own.”
In other words: Plagiarism is taking credit for someone else’s work. Forgery is giving someone else credit for work you create.
The difference is you *doing the work*.
— Austin Kleon
https://austinkleon.com/2023/11/01/3-recent-newsletters/
Herbert Lui on doing the work and self promotion
“Making good work is like a muscle, one that wears away within days or even hours. The best thing you can do is exercise it every day. While you may publish every day, you don’t need to promote all of it; just the good stuff.”
https://herbertlui.net/an-author-on-both-sides-of-publishing/
When I first independently published Creative Doing, the initial manuscript was 10,000 words (⅓ of its current length), published under a different title, as a PDF digital download on Gumroad. A few months later, I would connect with Holloway—as a cold submission—and sign a publishing deal with them. A year after that, after much editing […]
“If my critics saw me walking over the Thames, they would say it was because I couldn’t swim.”
— Margaret Thatcher
Poor writing transfers the work from the writer to the reader. Good writing, on the other hand, nearly reads itself, allowing the reader to spend more time thinking about the ideas than pulling out meaning. Poor writing might be one of the single biggest invisible costs in organizations.
… if you accept that writing (or dieting or exercising or programming) is hard work,
And that’s what it feels like when you’re writing (or dieting or exercising or programming),
Then everything is as it should be.
Your labor isn’t a sign of defeat.
It’s a sign of engagement.
The difference is all in your mind, but what a difference.
— paraphrasing Verlyn Klinkenborg
via https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/your-labor-isnt-a-sign-of-defeat
h/t Mandy Brown, A Working Library
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