No Eagle Powers?

My email had no eagle powers.

I spent over an hour today editing a tiresome email newsletter for my day job.

You would think I would not write “tiresome” about an email I conceived and wrote. But it lacks a certain something.

The email has no eagle powers.

Every time I write something like this…

I have to remind myself of “The Creativity Faucet” an article by Julian Shapiro that will change the way you think about first drafts.

DadFace Directive: Don’t worry when look over the page you’ve written and see nothing but drivel staring back at you.

That’s almost always step one.

Always.

Last week you wrote the next Lord of the Rings but you took the weekend off and now you’re back beating out lackluster sentences akin to “see spot run.”

It’s not you.

It’s the process.

You have to get the bad writing out of the way so the good writing can emerge.

Click here to read The Creativity Faucet.

To the relatives who faithfully read these emails, thanks for all the birthday goodies (I’m reading McPhee’s Draft No. 4 on my new Kindle and stroking the soft cover of a new collection of short stories on JFK’s assassination).

To everyone else, I’ll be covering the recent passing of my birthday — and Yo Mama 😢 (RIP, you big, beautiful bird) — in my next letter.

Girls say “Hi!”

—DadFace