Maybe you're limiting yourself (video, 4:15)

Maybe you're limiting yourself (video, 4:15)

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Introduction

  • Course intro (video, 3:06)2
  • How to use the course (video, 3:16)5
  • Course origin story (video, 3:31)3
  • Your goals (video, 1:49)
  • Invitation: your goals40

Opening remarks

  • You are already perfect (video, 5:15)3
  • The anti-grinding principle (video, 3:43)4
  • Invitation: grind, then don't16
  • There are two genres (video, 3:47)2
  • Invitation: the truth, and lies6
  • Don't do your best (video, 3:19)3
  • Invitation: do kind of a shitty job10

Ideas

  • Start with the obvious (video, 3:45)1
  • Invitation: document the obvious8
  • Write ten bad ideas (video, 3:38)1
  • Invitation: ten bad ideas2
  • Approaching big subjects (video, 2:53)1
  • Invitation: a big subject3
  • Evaluating ideas (video, 3:08)1
  • Invitation: evaluate your ideas1

Generation

  • Write first drafts quickly (video, 3:39)2
  • Invitation: write something quickly3
  • Start from where you are (video, 3:07)2
  • Invitation: start from where you are4
  • First drafts are experiments (video, 4:09)6
  • Invitation: write something to be discarded2
  • Working with perfectionism (video, 3:40)
  • Invitation: scary writing assignment, part 12

Mindset

  • The art of mindset (video, 3:01)
  • Invitation: introspect4
  • Understanding creative anxiety (video, 4:09)2
  • Invitation: consider what makes you creatively anxious
  • The scrappy hero mindset (video, 2:57)
  • Invitation: become a scrappy hero
  • The beauty of the entertainer mindset (video, 4:47)2
  • Invitation: think about the entertainer mindset
  • The conversationalist mindset (video, 3:42)
  • Invitation: scary writing assignment, part 21

Editing

  • No time at the editing desk is wasted (video, 3:42)2
  • On defensive editing (video, 2:08)1
  • Editing sideways (video, 2:24)
  • Try just deleting sentences1
  • See if you should cut out the beginning
  • Understand the effort curve
  • Believe that you can rewrite it
  • How to kill your darlings1
  • How to get better feedback1
  • Invitation: scary writing assignment, part 3

Common Fears

  • What if my writing is unoriginal? (video, 2:49)
  • What if I sabotage myself? (video, 5:54)
  • Is it okay that I'm creating because I want people to like me? (video, 3:44)1
  • What if I don't have a great knowledge management system? (video, 2:50)
  • What if I'm afraid of criticism? (video, 3:52)1
  • Invitation: what if you're scared of something else?

Work and Non-Work

  • On daily writing habits (video, 4:10)1
  • Invitation: look at your habits
  • Consider the power of social accountability (video, 4:45)
  • Invitation: try some social accountability
  • Remember to work, or not work (video, 3:38)
  • Invitation: don't work
  • Extracurricular writing, why do it (video, 2:11)1
  • Invitation: delight somebody

Growth

  • What's 'better'? (video, 3:19)
  • Invitation: feel with the keyboard2
  • Three kinds of stealing (video, 3:32)1
  • Invitation: let yourself be influenced1
  • Sometimes better is worse (video, 2:17)1
  • Invitation: do a new thing, badly
  • Sometimes better is less (video, 2:18)3
  • Invitation: phone it in

Concluding remarks

  • Maybe you're limiting yourself (video, 4:15)1
  • Invitation: observe your limits
  • Include some chaos (video, 3:00)
  • Invitation: add some chaos
  • Follow the easy magic (video, 3:40)1
  • Invitation: consider what's easy3
  • Invitation: scary writing assignment, part 4
  • Conclusion, of a sort (video, 3:07)
  • One last parting note (video, 1:56)
  • Invitation: reflect

Bonus videos

  • Imagined audiences and the power of artistic restriction (video, 3:24)
  • The balance between improving and letting go (video, 4:10)
  • So you want to write a book (video, 3:31)
  • The courage to be disliked (video, 4:00)