Cultivating Creativity
In the course of any creative pursuit, I find that things tend to follow a familiar pattern: there's the initial spark of idea, followed by a furiously productive period, then a slight cooling off, a reconsideration of the merits of the original idea, and then downright frustration with the thing.
For shorter projects, this arc is not as applicable. If you can finish the thing off before the initial excitement wears off, you can maintain that furious work ethic will still remaining inspired by whatever initial inspiration you had. But for longer projects, it can be killer, and I find that the longer you keep sludging away on a thing, the more fed up with it you get.
read onWar Waged By Other Means
Mike stared at the screen incredulously. He could barely believe what he was seeing in front of him.
Mike worked as a tech writer by trade, and a good chunk - a majority - of his day was spent keeping up on news in the blogosphere. He had his own blog, Mikeshow, that he posted to regularly, but the real action happened in the comments threads of the big boys in town, and it was at this that he stared.
He had left his comment fairly recently. The post was a vanilla-type blurb about a new Apple rumor, which the blogosphere was fairly susceptible to, and Mike, as a seasoned journalist, had felt the need to point this out. In a completely respectful way, of course.