The wit and wisdom of David S. Simon (MAD ABOUT YOU, THE FRESH PRINCE OF BEL-AIR, THE WAYANS BROTHERS, etc).
Did that sound snarky? It wasn’t intended that way. How can TVWriter™ help but love the man responsible for this spot on description of showbiz achievement: “Failure is just ‘sucksess.'”
Here’s the plain, simple truth: most of us fail like unbroken clockwork most of the time. In fact you could say that the only thing that we succeed at with any regularity is failure.
And if anybody’s an expert at failure it’s Jim
So here’s what happens when you ask a man about a subject he really knows
EDITOR’S NOTE: Wait, we’ll get it. Ahh…:
Good advice for writers and creatives of all kinds, courtesy of Rita Karnopp’s and Ginger Simpson’s fine blog:
When we hear the word ‘balance’ then add writing and life, an author could almost laugh. It’s a bit of a facetious statement.
When I started writing my children were very young, five and three. So I scheduled my writing time after they went to bed around nine and wrote until two or three in the morning. But, that’s not to say I never wrote during the day – because I did. My office space was in our front living room (because we never used it, we always used the huge family room to the back of the house facing the mountains) and my desk faced the hallway toward the bedrooms. The kids, and their friends, came in and out of that front door – past me – how many times a day?
Creative Thinking from Grant Snider at Incidental Comics,
which TVWriter™ genuinely believes is the best cartoon site on the web!
…Do you want it?
According to co-founder Scott Barry Kaufman, a new website called The Imagination Institute “is dedicated to making progress on the measurement, groth, and improvement of imagination across all sectors of society.”
It’s based on the assumption, with which TVWriter™ heartily agrees, that imagination is one of humanity’s most precious resources. So it follows that knowing more about what constitutes imagination and what conditions help it grow would be a great benefit to us all.
