How a Challenge Helps Your Writing

Summary

The web content discusses how embracing challenges can enhance writing skills, referencing Malcolm Gladwell's "10,000-hour rule" and featuring insights from Lisa Bolin on the Tripple Effect podcast.

Abstract

The article "How a Challenge Helps Your Writing" emphasizes the importance of challenges in improving writing proficiency. It introduces Malcolm Gladwell's concept that mastery in any field, including writing, requires extensive practice, approximately 10,000 hours. The author suggests that pushing the boundaries of one's comfort zone through challenges is a key component of this process. The piece highlights an episode of the Tripple Effect podcast, where guest Lisa Bolin shares her experiences and perspectives on the benefits of taking on writing challenges. Listeners are invited to engage with the discussion and explore additional resources, such as the poetry sculpture challenge and Lisa Bolin's other writings, to further their understanding and application of writing challenges.

Opinions

The author endorses the idea that deliberate practice and boundary-pushing challenges are essential for mastering writing.
Lisa Bolin is presented as a knowledgeable figure in the writing community, with valuable insights to share on the subject of writing challenges.
The article encourages readers to seek out and participate in creative challenges, like the poetry sculpture challenge, to enhance their writing skills.
The author recommends Lisa Bolin's Medium profile and her newsletter "Northern Notes" as resources for writers looking to improve their craft.
The creation of a new poetic form, the tritriplicata, is mentioned as an example of the author's own engagement with creative challenges in poetry.

How a Challenge Helps Your Writing

Mastery in practice: making a Hermès Saddle

How much time have you already spent writing? In his book Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell puts forward the “10.000-hour-rule”. To really excel in something, you need to practice for 10.000 hours. I would like to add that you also need to explore the boundaries of the thing you are searching mastery of. And exploring boundaries is easiest when you have a challenge to take up. How a challenge can help you improve your writing? The answer is in episode 3 of poetry podcast Tripple Effect. I invited Lisa Bolin to contribute, and she has a lot to say. Listen here:

The poetry sculpture challenge we discuss in the show can be found here:

Read Lisa’s other stories through her profile:

And I can also recommend that you subscribe to her newsletter Northern Notes. I have, and it has enriched my life.

Curious to what a tritriplicata is? It’s a poetic form I created. More about that here:

How a Challenge Helps Your Writing

Poetry Sculpture

Mt attempt at another way of creating poetry

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