These Are 23 Great Rules To Be A Productive Creative

As Seth Godin observed, “no one ever gets talker’s block.”

Don’t talk about projects until you’re finished. Save that carrot for the end. Talking and doing fight for the same resources.

Great artists work. Mediocre artists talk a lot about tools.

One of the best pieces of writing advice I ever got was to–before I started the process–articulate the idea in one sentence, one paragraph and one page.

A book is made of books. “The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading; a man will turn over half a library to make one book,” Samuel Johnson said.