You are writing children's books, you need to be a ruthless killer
--J. K. Rowling




"There's stories and then there's stories," he said, interrupting her. "The ones with any worth change your life forever, perhaps only in a small
      way, but once you've heard them, they are forever a part of you. You nurture them and pass them on and the giving only makes you feel
      better.

      "The others are just words on a page."

      The Conjure Man 
      By Charles de Lint

Jonathan Swift 
      Books, the children of the brain.


A creative document is a document that has value in and of
itself. Think of a talk you enjoyed
just hearing, an ad you liked, a web page you thought was "cool".

An effective document is one that does its intended
job. Understanding, communicating, selling, creative thinking are all
possible intended jobs.

In almost all situations creative documents are more effective than
utilitarian documents.  Knowing when to use utilitarian documents is
important too.

While creative documents are often more expensive to produce they are
usually, in the long run, more efficient: they do a job better and one
needs fewer of them.

Creative documents also make life in general more pleasant and make
the workplace more desirable and productive. They have consequences
beyond their domain.
EARLY CDI PROVERBS
http://www.parc.xerox.com/red/members/richgold/CDI-EARLY/proverbf.htm


The omnipotence of an author is a terrible
           and awful thing.
B.W. Clough

A work in progress quickly becomes feral. . . . it is a lion you cage in your study. As the work
grows it gets harder to control. . . . You must visit it every day and reassert your mastery
over it. If you skip a day, you are, quite rightly, afraid to open the door to its room. You enter
with bravura, holding a chair at the thing and shouting, "Simba!"
Annie Dillard, The Writing Life 
 

"The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable
to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in 
the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself." - Joan Didion