Why Try To Get Out Of Your Box, When You Can Use What's In It?
you will do something for the first time.
Too often people are only asked “when was the last time you did something for the first time?”
Equally important is to ask how you can make the next time feel like the first time?
However, it’s so seldom that we ask when is the next time you will do something for the first time? Let alone actually plan it.
Stay Positive & Don’t You Have Some Planning To Do
Garth E. Beyer
This year (2013) was my first year attempting National Novel Writing Month, shortened to #NaNoWriMo. I am ecstatically happy to report that it was a success. I will be editing the book through December and January and will have it available hopefully at the end of January.
Here are some of the best lessons and reflections while writing.
1. Stick to the schedule of 1,700 words a day, but don’t beat yourself up if you skip a day. I skipped a total of 9 days. It was fun having a larger word count to write some days. It mixed things up.
2. No editing. No review. No changes.
3. Following lesson two. Keep writing forward. How you ask?
4. Remember that you can do absolutely anything. I was riding in a car looking at the scenery and saw a park. I thought to myself “my main character should go to a park.” My main character never did, but I realized I could do anything I wanted.
5. Go at it with the goal of surprising yourself. I didn’t plan to share the novel with anyone or sell it on Amazon, but I will because I surprised myself with how good I think it is.
6. When you’re sticking to the schedule of 1,700 words. Stick it out in one sitting.
7. Keep your fingers on the keyboard as often as possible. Don’t sit back to think, don’t drink water to think, keep your fingers on the keyboard and think. Each time you lift your fingers off the keyboard, you’re disconnecting yourself from the story.
8. It never gets easier. You will have your spurts of incredible writing sprees and inspiration, but each day that you sit down to write, you’re essentially starting over. I laughed each time I would check off my writing on the calendar because each day is the shape of a square. “Tomorrow I’m back to square one.”
9. Coffee.
10. Do NOT talk about your story while writing it. I don’t care who is asking or why they want to know. I don’t care how good you think your story is or how many people are asking to hear about your story. I don’t care if you’re being bribed or blackmailed. Do NOT talk about your story while writing it. Just to set it in stone for you, I’m going to repeat myself a third time. DO NOT TALK ABOUT YOUR STORY WHILE WRITING IT.
Stay Positive & Next Year, Do It All Again
Garth E. Beyer
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and quit reading blogs and surfing the web. Go do something important. Go do a bit of work that really matters.
Stay Positive & Someone’s Gotta Say It To You
Garth E. Beyer
Today, we all have a lot to be thankful for, but many will spend this day doing little different from any other day. They are already in the business of giving thanks. They give thanks by doing work that matters. They celebrate having the resources, the inspiration, the competition, the audience (thank you) and the passion by using it all.
It’s the people who are in the long-term business of giving that we can be thankful for, at their generosity and devotion to doing work that matters. Even more so, though, is that we are all one action, one phone call, one blog post away from being part of the business of giving, caring and doing work that matters.
Thank you for being there while I take action, call and post each day.
And thank you for being in the business with me.
There are thousands of ideas on how to make life easier, there are thousands of ideas of how to make day-to-day actions more fun or aesthetic, there are thousands of ideas on how to fix government, how to fix the water shortage, thousands of ideas for businesses, books, songs, houses, cars, tractors, buildings, etc,.
When you think to yourself “Can’t they think of a better idea.”
I would bet a thousand that they have.
The shortage isn’t of ideas; the shortage is of action, of execution, of application.
It’s not that people are stupid. It’s that they are afraid.
Stay Positive & Are You?
Garth E. Beyer
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I encourage everyone to spend the holiday break discussing big ideas and committing to something.
Start a Krypton course. Meet once a week for four weeks.
Here’s the first course layout. Look it over, plan a date and start inviting people.
Oh, and remember, you only need you and someone else. After completing the first course with one friend, I may even argue that it’s better than having a larger group. All the same, there are advantages to both – all of which are essential.
Stay Positive & Go Start Something. It Will Be Remarkable.
Garth E. Beyer
