But Everything is so SHINY: Episode 319, Coaching journalist Alison Myers on restarting a writing career.
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Listen now (57 min) | It’s hard to start. It’s hard to finish. It’s hard to choose. Sometimes writers (especially those who have had to step back from a professional journalism job for family or other reasons) have all the ideas and in some sense, all the time to execute them, and the result isn’t wild productivity, but a frustrating spinning of wheels—because if everything is possible, how do you choose? What if you choose wrong? Everything looks like a shiny opportunity, but when you write the first few sentences, it turns out the shiny thing was just a gum wrapper.
But Everything is so SHINY: Episode 319, Coaching journalist Alison Myers on restarting a writing career.
But Everything is so SHINY: Episode 319…
But Everything is so SHINY: Episode 319, Coaching journalist Alison Myers on restarting a writing career.
Listen now (57 min) | It’s hard to start. It’s hard to finish. It’s hard to choose. Sometimes writers (especially those who have had to step back from a professional journalism job for family or other reasons) have all the ideas and in some sense, all the time to execute them, and the result isn’t wild productivity, but a frustrating spinning of wheels—because if everything is possible, how do you choose? What if you choose wrong? Everything looks like a shiny opportunity, but when you write the first few sentences, it turns out the shiny thing was just a gum wrapper.