tag:piggydb.net,2009:db-20121217124623252:tag-72013-04-07T22:51:46.509+00:00Piggydb Knowledge Example - endurancePiggydbtag:piggydb.net,2009:db-20121217124623252.fragment-482013-03-26T23:03:13.267+00:002013-04-07T22:51:46.509+00:00"“I told the boy I was a strange old man,” he said. ...
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"“I told the boy I was a strange old man,” he said. “Now is when I must prove it.” The thousand times that he had proved it meant nothing. Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it." (<a class="quick-viewable" data-id="40" href="http://piggydb.jp/example/fragment.htm?id=40">#40</a> 645)
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ownertag:piggydb.net,2009:db-20121217124623252.fragment-442013-03-26T22:34:04.907+00:002013-04-07T21:47:33.997+00:00"But, he thought, I keep them with precision. ...
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"But, he thought, I keep them with precision. Only I have no luck any more. But who knows? Maybe today. Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready." (<a class="quick-viewable" data-id="40" href="http://piggydb.jp/example/fragment.htm?id=40">#40</a> 289)
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ownertag:piggydb.net,2009:db-20121217124623252.fragment-322012-12-08T22:38:45.400+00:002012-12-12T11:29:56.231+00:00Endurance
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"After focus, the next most important thing for a novelist is, hands down, <a class="tag" href="http://piggydb.jp/example/tag.htm?name=endurance">endurance</a>. If you concentrate on writing three or four hours a day and feel tired after a week of this, you're not going to be able to write a long work. What's needed for a writer of fiction - at least one who hopes to write a novel - is the energy to focus every day for half a year, or a year, two years. You can compare it to breathing. If concentration is the process of just holding your breath, <a class="tag" href="http://piggydb.jp/example/tag.htm?name=endurance">endurance</a> is the art of slowly, quietly breathing at the same time you're storing air in your lungs. Unless you can find a balance between both, it'll be difficult to write novels professionally over a long time. Continuing to breathe while you hold your breath." (<a class="quick-viewable" data-id="23" href="http://piggydb.jp/example/fragment.htm?id=23">#23</a> p.78)
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ownertag:piggydb.net,2009:db-20121217124623252.fragment-332012-12-08T22:38:53.472+00:002012-12-12T11:29:49.909+00:00Continuing to breathe while you hold your breathownertag:piggydb.net,2009:db-20121217124623252.fragment-302012-12-08T20:26:50.28+00:002012-12-12T11:29:22.415+00:00Like water from a natural spring vs. Opening a hole in the hard rock and locating a new water vein
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"Writers who are blessed with inborn talent can freely write novels no matter what they do - or don't do. Like water from a natural spring, the sentences just well up, and with little or no effort these writers can complete a work. Occasionally you'll find someone like that, but, unfortunately, that <a class="tag" href="http://piggydb.jp/example/tag.htm?name=category">category</a> wouldn't include me. I haven't spotted any springs nearby. I have to pound the rock with a chisel and dig out a deep hole before I can locate the source of creativity. To write a novel I have to drive myself hard physically and use a lot of time and effort. Every time I begin a new novel, I have to dredge out another new, deep hole. But as I've sustained this kind of life over many years, I've become quite efficient, both technically and physically, at opening a hole in the hard rock and locating a new water vein. So as soon as I notice one water source drying up, I can move on right away to another. If people who rely on a natural spring of talent suddenly find they've exhausted their only source, they're in trouble." (<a class="quick-viewable" data-id="23" href="http://piggydb.jp/example/fragment.htm?id=23">#23</a> p.43)
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ownertag:piggydb.net,2009:db-20121217124623252.fragment-252012-12-08T12:53:36.243+00:002012-12-12T11:15:00.403+00:00Keeping up the rhythm
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"As long as I can run a certain distance, that's all I care about. Sometimes I run fast when I feel like it, but if I increase the pace I shorten the amount of time I run, the point being to let the exhilaration I feel at the end of each run carry over to the next day. This is the same sort of tack I find necessary when writing a novel. I stop every day right at the point when I feel I can write more. Do that, and the next day's work goes surprisingly smoothly. I think Ernest Hemingway did something like that. To keep on going, you have to keep up the rhythm. This is the important thing for long-term projects. Once you set the pace, the rest will follow. The problem is getting the flywheel to spin at a set speed - and to get to that point takes as much concentration and effort as you can manage." (<a class="quick-viewable" data-id="23" href="http://piggydb.jp/example/fragment.htm?id=23">#23</a> p.4-5)
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ownertag:piggydb.net,2009:db-20121217124623252.fragment-242012-12-05T22:52:59.441+00:002012-12-05T22:52:59.441+00:00"Somerset Maugham once wrote that in each shave lies a philosophy. ...
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"Somerset Maugham once wrote that in each shave lies a philosophy. I couldn't agree more. No matter how mundane some action might appear, keep at it long enough and it becomes a contemplative, even meditative act." (<a class="quick-viewable" data-id="23" href="http://piggydb.jp/example/fragment.htm?id=23">#23</a> Foreword)
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