We've all heard that phrase at least one time in our life: "you just have to work really hard at what you're doing." It's a phrase that can send people off on long excursions only to return to where they started.
As a writer, it's easy to think of "working hard" as simply putting the time in. Make my outline. Do my edits. Make sure you're writing 30 minutes a day. That all sounds well and good. But, what about our approach to these things? What are our expectations?
In this episode, I'll be tackling this topic as well as how my own sense of entitlement led me off the rails financially. And gave me a rather large wakeup call in the process.
The Writer's Lens - E23: We All Wish We Could Be The Hero
The Writer's Lens - E22: Good And Evil In Story
The Writer's Lens - E21: Worldviews, Ideas, And The Psychology Of Creating Stories...Now, Did You Get All That?
The Writer's Lens - E20: "Be Unique"; "Be Yourself"...Wait, What Does That Even Mean?
The Writer's Lens - E19: I Want What You Have; I Want To Do It Better; and I Want You To Fail
The Writer's Lens - E18: Do You Have Deadlines? Or Creative 'Checkpoints'?
The Writer's Lens - E17: Should We Separate Art From The Artist?
The Writer's Lens - E16: Who Is Rooting For You?
The Writer's Lens - E15: Can Writing Be Considered a Spiritual Experience?
The Writer's Lens - E14: Creatives and Their Priorities
The Writer's Lens - E13: Dinosaurs... Wait, What?
The Writer's Lens - Review: Red Rising Trilogy by Pierce Brown
The Writer's Lens - E12: How Story Affects Us - Part 2
The Writer's Lens - Review: Stranger Things, Season 2
The Writer's Lens - Interview 05: Brent McLaughlin, On the Importance of Journaling, Part 2
The Writer's Lens - Interview 05: Brent McLaughlin, On the Importance of Journaling, Part 1
The Writer's Lens - E11: Interview Decompression, aka Cool Things I've Learned
The Writer's Lens - Interview 04: Dr. Robert Snyder, "What is a Veteran, Anyway?"
The Writer's Lens - Interview 03: Daniel Luketic, entrepreneur
The Writer's Lens - E10: How Story Affects Us - Part 1
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