Clay Shirky's Secret Sauce For A Great Book: Total Brilliance and A "Boring Jail"
One highlight, among many, at the ITP Winter Show tonight was talking with Clay Shirky, Rita J. King and Joshua Fouts. Clay Shirky described some of the behind the scenes work he did on his brilliant book, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations. Want to improve your writing? Clay Shirky's approach is to create "a boring jail." A "boring jail" is place you put anything you have written that doesn't have a good story attached to it. Doesn't matter if you think it is clever, important, something people need to know, whatever! No Story attached, Go Straight To Jail! Great books are made of great stories.
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