Saturday, November 19, 2011

continue to WRITE POORLY

Sekedar pengingat buat aku sendiri atau siapa aja yang potensial mengalami, uhm, writer's block. This is Seth Godin's advice, i'll recite a bit :

The reason we don't get talker's block is that we're in the habit of talking without a lot of concern for whether or not our inane blather will come back to haunt us. Talk is cheap. Talk is ephemeral. Talk can be easily denied. 
We talk poorly and then, eventually (or sometimes), we talk smart. We get better at talking precisely because we talk. We see what works and what doesn't, and if we're insightful, do more of what works. How can one get talker's block after all this practice? 
Writer's block isn't hard to cure. Just write poorly. Continue to write poorly, in public, until you can write better. 
I believe that everyone should write in public. Get a blog. Or use Squidoo or Tumblr or a microblogging site. Use an alias if you like. Turn off comments, certainly--you don't need more criticism, you need more writing.  

There. I guess all of us already got the point, no? :)

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