George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain:
“What does an artist do, mostly? She tweaks that which she’s already done. There are those moments when we sit before a blank page, but mostly we’re adjusting what’s already there. The writer revises, the painter touches up, the director edits, the musician overdubs.”
I’m filing this one away for future reference when I’m feeling less-productive. Even if the day’s toil was tweaks, edits, rewrites, or failed rewrites, it checks the box.
Austin Kleon, A Few Notes on Daily Blogging:
“With blogging, I’m not so sure it’s about quantity as much as it’s about frequency: for me, there’s something kind of magical about posting once a day. Good things happen. Something small every day leads to something big.”
But also this! Frequency generates as much quality as does quantity. Show up, every day!
