Jonathan Coulton: Forced Creativity Good
There’s a great story of Jonathan Coulton on Yahoo: How To Become a Rockstar.
Jonathan is a kindred spirit in that he’s a software geek … and he quit his job to be a rock star. He eventually self-made himself into an artist making more money as a musician than he did at his software job.
One of the keys to his success was that he forced himself to write and release one song every week for an entire year. It is amazing what can be produced with artificial deadlines like this. It’s the same power wielded by nanowrimo and rpmchallenge.
I gotta make me myself some creative artificial deadlines and goals …
Read and watch : Jonathan Coulton’s story on Yahoo’s “People of the Web”. It’s good stuff.
I’m with you, Rob. I need the deadlines.
