To Increase the Quality of Your Creative Work, Increase the Volume of It

For every best-selling book an author writes, every Oscar winning film an actor stars in, every Grammy-nominated album a musician produces, and every Nobel prize winning discovery by a professor, there are hundreds if not thousands of hours of work that never sees the light of day, doesn’t resonate with an audience, or make it past the cutting room floor.

Because we don’t know about somebody’s work until they’re in the spotlight, we overlook what actually went into it. A successful creative career in any field is years in the making. But there is one way to accelerate progress in your creative career.

Seth Godin has written more than 6,000 blog posts and 19 books. In an interview, he said that NONE of his blog posts have gone viral. If you go to Amazon and search for some of the books he’s written, what you discover will shock you. Buried under all his best-sellers are books like Email Addresses of Famous People.

If you’re new to the Unmistakable Creative, you’ve probably never heard of BlogcastFM and The Skool of Life, the precursor to the podcast and a personal blog where I wrote hundreds of articles. You’ve also never heard of the 3 other blogs I started. When my editor Stephanie stumbled on my piece about how writing 1,000 words a day changed my life, I’d already…