Thought for the Day Writing is part intuition and part ...

[Paul Whybrow]

Writing is part intuition and part trial and error, but mostly it's very hard work.

Cheryl Strayed

 

[MattScho]

A good friend of mine from childhood became a pretty highly regarded jazz musician (so, a complete unknown to most). When we were young, we'd hang out in his basement while he practiced, for 8-9 hours a day. Later, when i had kids who liked the idea of playing music, I used this as an example of what it actually takes to make it in music. Then, they met him, and told him this. And he came to me and said "don't them that, it's bullshit. I practiced that much because I loved it, and I loved it because I had it. If you don't have it, it doesn't matter how much you practice."
Which is an interesting take on Einstein (or Edison, or probably Apocryphal) that while genius is 1 percent insprition and 99 percent perspiration, that one percent matters a lot.