if you want to be a writer, you have to be a reader first. - Austin Kleon

We all go through cycles of disenchantment and re-enchantment with our work. When you feel as though you've lost or you're losing your gift, the quickest way to recover is to step outside the marketplace and make gifts. There's nothing as pure as making something specifically for someone special.

Writer David Foster Wallace said that he thought good nonfiction was a chance to “watch somebody reasonably bright but also reasonably average pay far closer attention and think at far more length about all sorts of different stuff than most of us have a chance to in our daily lives.” Amateurs fit the same bill: They’re just regular people who get obsessed by something and spend a ton of time thinking out loud about it.

No tienes que compartir todo; de hecho, algunas veces es mejor no hacerlo. Muestra un poco de tu trabajo. Comparte un boceto o un fragmento, un vistazo de tu proceso. Piensa qué puedes compartir que tenga valor para los demás. Comparte un buen consejo, un link interesante. Menciona un buen libro.