Creative Commandments for 2019

From the creative work plan of Henry Miller, in 1932-1933. Brilliant, really. Yet they can each be applied to everyone, in every industry.

1. Work one thing at a time until your finished. 'Multi-tasking' is a term that's seriously abused and always overrated.
2. Start no new books until you finish the first one. Start now, it'll hone you in.
3. Don't be nervous. Work calmly, joyously, and recklessly on what is at hand.
4. Work according to your 'program' and not according to your mood. Stop at the appointed time!
5. When you can't create, you can't work. Ever.
6. Cement a little every day. Don't add new 'fertilizers'.
7. Keep human! See people, go places, drink if you feel like it.
8. Don't be a draft-horse! Work with pleasure only.
9. Discard your 'program' when you need to. But go back to it the next day.
10. Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing.
11. Expand yourself. Write first and always, yet do some music, painting, cinema ―all come afterward but are important. And if you feel you can't do theses, experience them.

Now, get started. Somewhere, anywhere.

Stephen Carter King, once a scorched earth turnaround artist; often a pushy, sassy writer. He is Brand, Search, and Visibility Leader, and CEO, at Kings Crossing where he helps people take control of their online presence, their data. He writes, consults and speaks on the disruptive internet and its impact on business, and tracks technology and related trends.

Instructing on digital marketing, brand innovation, evolving business models, rapidly changing customer experiences and ways of shopping and purchasing, he’s known for his “visual map of the data landscape.” Mostly, he dreams in Technicolor.

His fave topic is the whispers and secrets that lie along the southern coast. A futurist, and hopeless romantic, he’s shamelessly enamored with all things in the Florida Keys.

Growing up in Cincinnati, playing ‘knothole’ baseball starting at four years old, he played this game into his early-twenties, even professionally. It was his very own “wonder years”.