The one path that never works is the most common one: doing nothing at all.

I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.

Go ahead, fail. Try to avoid mistakes, though.

One reason I encourage people to blog is that the act of doing it stretches your available vocabulary and hones a new voice.

The real power of tribes has nothing to do with the Internet and everything to do with people.

Sometimes, we're so focused on being consistent that we also lower the bar on amazing. After all, the thinking goes, if we can't be amazing all the time, better to reset the expectation to merely good. Which robs us of the ability to (sometimes) be amazing.

The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want.