The Extra Degree of Effort
What will take your writing to the next level? Is it a writer's conference where you invest and travel across the country and have a significant conversation with an editor? Or maybe it's a class which you take from one person at the conference or several of them. Or it's an email that you get from a writing friend which spurs you ahead in your craft.
It's easy to get discouraged in publishing if you look at the massive amount of material in circulation for consideration or the large number of books which are constantly being released (and few of them selling in a significant way). Rather than look at the negative, it is better to be focused on the positive. What can you do today that will make a difference in your life and move you along the path to success? Where is your personal "tipping point" to use a phrase from the best-selling book by Malcolm Gladwell called The Tipping Point. I've had other entries about this book.
If you need a bit of inspiration, I recommend you check out this short film, 212 The Extra Degree Movie.
May this presentation inspire you to put out the extra effort and not only today but into everything that you write. I've watched this inspirational piece several times. See if you can raise your efforts by one degree.
Labels: 212 the Extra Degree, craft, Malcolm Gladwell, Tipping Point, writer's conferences
2 Comment:
For some people, that's just the kind of inspiration they need. For others, the perfectionists, that's too much pressure. Ultimately, God is in control of the results, not us.
Clever movie, though.
This is a great principle, so thanks for sharing the video. That one degree of difference can be a big one.
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