That's an interesting challenge. I feel like I would suck at it, with my "proclivity" towards walls of text. Hehe
Looking forward to more shiny dimes. In a couple of months I'll have a whole dollar!
I very much agree with The Never-Ending Now and have been leaning towards that kind of mentality for my whole adult life. Exceptionally great work is rare but less so if we allow ourselves to look back and not just down at our own feet.
Ever since I decided to invest in a subscription for Audible and a pair of AirPod Pros, I've been enjoying so many masterpieces from the past centuries (and even millennia). Not only are the works great but it's a lovely thing to be able to "anchor your heart" in a different time and from there, look ahead at where we are today.
With the greatest writers though, they not only feel ahead of their time but even our own.
Also, the great common denominator for all art is humanity. That is always there no matter what...
Maybe it would be an interesting challenge for you then?
Glad to hear you also recognize The Never-Ending Now (it's such a great name for it). It's incredible how easy access we have to so much great thinking now! I need to make an effort to be better at this myself, using more audio books would probably help me too. I listen to some podcasts that I could easily replace with books instead.
Love how you phrased that about writers being ahead of even the future!
Podcasts can definitely also be worthwhile. Sometimes it's a gray area. You can hear someone go on a podcast and talk about their life for a couple of hours or you can spend 8 hours listening to them narating their own autobiography. It's sort of the same and sort of not.
Among others, I've listened to Reggie from Nintendo's autobiography - lol. It's less Nintendo fan friendly and more of a business/self-help type experience. It did inspire me to buy a physical copy of "Ask Iwata" though, which is a pretty official little book about Nintendo's former president (R.I.P.) . That one gives a great view into the very heart of Nintendo and the people there.
Anyway - yeah, some writers were so far ahead that it's unbelievable. It's cliché to bring up Shakespeare but I still can't quite wrap my mind around that some of his stuff was written in the 1500's! I gotta listen to some more of that at some point.
Writing some types of shiny dimes would probably be manageable for me, if I sat down to focus. For now, I think I'll just sit back and read what you are coming up with though :)
I guess Reggie wasn't creatively involved at all with the games, he was just some sort of business guy? I heard another friend of mine talk about Ask Iwata as well. I'd probably enjoy that one!
I might just have to check out Shakespear as well some day. Just gotta find something low-level, my assumption is that his stories are long and probably use complicated english. I might be all wrong though.
I feel like you would enjoy Ask Iwata. Perhaps it is available in the French library system; I didn't have any luck here, so I ended up buying it.
Reggie was president of Nintendo of America and before that he had had a similar position in Pizza Hut, lol. His "creative" decisions were limited to things like including Sudoku with Brain Age for the DS (which I guess was a good decision) and insisting that Wii Sports should be included for free with every Wii console (which was an amazing decision).
Shakespeare is famous for his plays and those aren't super long. To be honest, I am kind of struggling with how to best experience his plays. There are audiobooks, recorded audio performances with actors and video recordings - and movies, I guess. So far, I've only listened to Hamlet.
As you may remember from the thing I wrote about the "big brain book", I am not that much of a reader - so being able to listen comfortably instead with the enormous selection available on Audible, has really opened up a lot of doors. It's awesome.
That looks like a cool channel. It's a niche I haven't considered but the art looks very charming :)
There's a trend with beginner writers who learn the 3-act structure with an inciting incident, climax, etc. And they start filling those out as if they are finishing a todo list and filling check-boxes. That, to me, seems like they're doing an exam!
The never ending now... now... now that is something I must pay mind to, and hopefully not just because I consumed it in the last 24 hours! I want to think more about how my consumption/production habits fit into who I want to be :)
That sounds like a schoolbook example of turning writing into a challenge! Sounds like that can easily get predictable or a bit stiff. Part of me also believes that 3 act structure is so basic you barely need to think about it? I'm probably wrong on that though.
Hope you find your way to deal with The Never-Ending Now!
That's an interesting challenge. I feel like I would suck at it, with my "proclivity" towards walls of text. Hehe
Looking forward to more shiny dimes. In a couple of months I'll have a whole dollar!
I very much agree with The Never-Ending Now and have been leaning towards that kind of mentality for my whole adult life. Exceptionally great work is rare but less so if we allow ourselves to look back and not just down at our own feet.
Ever since I decided to invest in a subscription for Audible and a pair of AirPod Pros, I've been enjoying so many masterpieces from the past centuries (and even millennia). Not only are the works great but it's a lovely thing to be able to "anchor your heart" in a different time and from there, look ahead at where we are today.
With the greatest writers though, they not only feel ahead of their time but even our own.
Also, the great common denominator for all art is humanity. That is always there no matter what...
Maybe it would be an interesting challenge for you then?
Glad to hear you also recognize The Never-Ending Now (it's such a great name for it). It's incredible how easy access we have to so much great thinking now! I need to make an effort to be better at this myself, using more audio books would probably help me too. I listen to some podcasts that I could easily replace with books instead.
Love how you phrased that about writers being ahead of even the future!
Podcasts can definitely also be worthwhile. Sometimes it's a gray area. You can hear someone go on a podcast and talk about their life for a couple of hours or you can spend 8 hours listening to them narating their own autobiography. It's sort of the same and sort of not.
Among others, I've listened to Reggie from Nintendo's autobiography - lol. It's less Nintendo fan friendly and more of a business/self-help type experience. It did inspire me to buy a physical copy of "Ask Iwata" though, which is a pretty official little book about Nintendo's former president (R.I.P.) . That one gives a great view into the very heart of Nintendo and the people there.
Anyway - yeah, some writers were so far ahead that it's unbelievable. It's cliché to bring up Shakespeare but I still can't quite wrap my mind around that some of his stuff was written in the 1500's! I gotta listen to some more of that at some point.
Writing some types of shiny dimes would probably be manageable for me, if I sat down to focus. For now, I think I'll just sit back and read what you are coming up with though :)
Yeah it's so gray with podcasts!
I guess Reggie wasn't creatively involved at all with the games, he was just some sort of business guy? I heard another friend of mine talk about Ask Iwata as well. I'd probably enjoy that one!
I might just have to check out Shakespear as well some day. Just gotta find something low-level, my assumption is that his stories are long and probably use complicated english. I might be all wrong though.
I feel like you would enjoy Ask Iwata. Perhaps it is available in the French library system; I didn't have any luck here, so I ended up buying it.
Reggie was president of Nintendo of America and before that he had had a similar position in Pizza Hut, lol. His "creative" decisions were limited to things like including Sudoku with Brain Age for the DS (which I guess was a good decision) and insisting that Wii Sports should be included for free with every Wii console (which was an amazing decision).
Shakespeare is famous for his plays and those aren't super long. To be honest, I am kind of struggling with how to best experience his plays. There are audiobooks, recorded audio performances with actors and video recordings - and movies, I guess. So far, I've only listened to Hamlet.
"The always there no matter what"! I love that as a complement to "The never-ending now."
I'm happy Audible and some AirPods have been making such an experience for you; I love the idea of that.
Hm, that reminds me of Pete Beard, who showcases "unsung illustrators" of the past! https://www.youtube.com/@petebeard
As you may remember from the thing I wrote about the "big brain book", I am not that much of a reader - so being able to listen comfortably instead with the enormous selection available on Audible, has really opened up a lot of doors. It's awesome.
That looks like a cool channel. It's a niche I haven't considered but the art looks very charming :)
Shiny dimes; fun!
There's a trend with beginner writers who learn the 3-act structure with an inciting incident, climax, etc. And they start filling those out as if they are finishing a todo list and filling check-boxes. That, to me, seems like they're doing an exam!
The never ending now... now... now that is something I must pay mind to, and hopefully not just because I consumed it in the last 24 hours! I want to think more about how my consumption/production habits fit into who I want to be :)
That sounds like a schoolbook example of turning writing into a challenge! Sounds like that can easily get predictable or a bit stiff. Part of me also believes that 3 act structure is so basic you barely need to think about it? I'm probably wrong on that though.
Hope you find your way to deal with The Never-Ending Now!