I clicked the link to a kickstarter offering to set up a welsh-speaking theater experience in London and got hit in the eyeball with a big glob of Welsh! But, as the voice on my Say Something in Welsh lesson says “Don’t Panic!” Scroll down a bit further and there’s a translation. Phew. Not quite ready for all those words yet, especially when I’ve only been listening and speaking them and there’s not always a direct correlation between how they sound and how they lay there on the page.

trying to get the plug in that posts to facebook to work correctly. It eludes me. Seriously

There is no need for you to leave the house. Stay at your table and listen. Don’t even listen, just wait. Don’t even wait, be completely quiet and alone. The world will offer itself to you to be unmasked; it can’t do otherwise; in raptures it will writhe before you. – Franz Kafka

A variation of this was posted as a comment in this essay by Silas House: The Art of Being Still.

Someone made a nice animation with part of the now world-renown commencement address by Neil Gaiman and it’s worth bookmarking for those days… you know the ones… when nothing is working, nothing is getting done, everyone says what you’re doing is “interesting. You know, “oh, that’s interesting. Yeah those days. When the questions people ask make the questions in your head even fuzzier than they were when you started.

So here you go, Neil’s reminder:

And PS, I have a hat, a little black number, with Make Good Art written in beautiful script along the edge. I wore it quite a few times over the past few weeks while encouraging my characters and chasing word counts and trying to keep my mind at work. It’s important to remind ourselves every day – do the work, make good art every day, even if it’s only a little bit. Just do it.

Never underestimate the power of a well-placed Fonzie shot to convince the stack sensor that it can and, indeed, should work.

(This is part of a bigger category of fixes and at the bottom of what to do after you’ve taken it all apart and put it back together and it still doesn’t work.)