Review: I had webpages to write
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 18, 2012
What was funny to me was how few of the problems I actually had - yet I was letting it slow me down anyway.  From the very first lesson that my writing might just be bad, which is how I was feeling, it did turn out that I was being too critical.It was a classic error of wanting it to be too perfect.  Once I got past that, I just wrote "something" and sent it to a few members of the team.  I didn't like it.  I thought it needed something more.  But they universally said "go with it!"  For me, it felt like "well, I suppose something is better than nothing" and within three days a new client walked through our door and specifically said "I liked your website."  Imagine if I had gotten this book a month earlier when I started the website project!I also had a problem with number 5 - the process/system.  Once I got that handled, the whole project came together in less than a week!  I had been "working on it" for months.  Once I got over the need for it to be perfect and established my process, the rest of the work started to come together.  I was my the "hang ups" (#6) and suddenly had ideas flowing (#7).Certainly no one will have all 8 issues (at least I would not not!), but if we've hit a wall, I would guess pretty much all of us will have two or three of them.  A few simple ideas to break through that wall, and the work can come together with such ease that it makes you wish you'd gotten this at the beginning of the project!One last thing: it's a short read.  It's a very short book, almost like a collection of quick articles, so it won't bog down your schedule even more.  I had another book recommended to me on writing, but it was so long that it would have been a month-long read, and even if I made it part of my work day, it could have still taken me a week!  When you need something fast, when you actually have to be writing in the next 24-48 hours, you want something that will give you insight and help you break out immediately - not in a week or a month when you finish a thick, full-length book.  At least that's my opinion!(For the record, this review is part of my warm-up writing today.  I have more writing to do today, and "warm-up writing" is now part of my process.  So, now that I've finally given Mr. Kosloff his much-deserved review... it's off to go write!  I'm working on another website today, and I have many pages to write....)