"How You Do Anything Is How You Do Everything"

"Writing is easy. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed." - Ernest Hemingway

Everyone wants to play, earn a role, and be recognized. Coaches know who's been naughty or nice.

How do you play better? 

• Build skills. 
• Learn the game by studying and playing. 
• Focus. Challenge yourself every time you step on the court. Serve better. Read better. Block better. 
• Become stronger and quicker. Track your vertical and measures of power like standing broad jump. 
• Be fierce. Compete. Impact the game. 

Demand more at the desk.  

• Build skills. Write with purpose. Stare down assignments. Imitate a legend like Hemingway. 
• Study technique...be clear, simple, and strategic using action verbs, vivid pictures, alliteration, and other rhetoric. Shun "weak words" and banal adverbs such as really, very, truly. 
• Focus. Have a "writing spot." Dustbin the distractions. 
• Power your words. Sabine was more. She was a monolith. 
• Be a writer. Care. Refine your $#%@ first draft (Anne Lamott) into art.

Claude.ai rewrites the above in the style of Hemingway. We're all here to learn and grow. 

Bleed on the Page

Writing is a fight. You either show up for it or you don't.

Build something. Every assignment is an opponent. Go after it. Study Hemingway — not to worship him, but to take what he knew and make it yours. He bled on the page. Now you bleed.

Learn the craft the way you learned to serve. Clarity. Simplicity. A strong verb hits harder than an adverb ever will. Really and very and truly — cut them. They are the shanked passes of writing. Use words that land. Sabine wasn't tall. Sabine stood like a monolith. You feel the difference. That's the difference.

Find your spot. Close the door. Kill the noise. A player who can't focus in practice won't focus when the score is tied and the gym is loud. Same here. Sit down. Do the work.

Care about the words. A first draft is ugly — Anne Lamott called it something unprintable, and she was right. Every writer has written garbage. The ones who matter didn't stop there. They came back. They cut. They rebuilt. They cared enough to make something true out of something rough.

You are not just an athlete. You are a person who does things with full commitment or not at all.

How you do anything is how you do everything.

Now write like you mean it.

Happy Easter! If you're playing today, fight for special.