Seth Goden’s book The Practice follows a simple structure:
There are 219 titled chapters split across 8 Sections. Each chapter is a single page, no more than 300 words. That’s it. 219 new ideas, one on page each.
Example chapters
- Learning to Juggle - 26 sentences, 284 words
- How to Draw an Owl - 14 sentences, 150 words + a picture
- Does It Take Courage to Be Creative? - 14 sentences, 203 words
- This Is Art - 15 sentences, 200 words + a quoted paragraph
- Perhaps You Can Make Some Art - 12 sentences, 172 words
Seth practices what he preaches. His blog is one idea, written every day. It’s the Practice that he talks about in this book.
Seth writes using an Atomic Notes structure. Each idea is 300 words or less so it can Fit On A Single Page.
Seth then uses a Pages and Notes Structure to organize things. He arranges the 219 ideas into groupings which represent overarching ideas like “Earn Your Skills”. The book is simply a collection of those groupings.
His blog is, frankly, indistinguishable in quality from the book, but people1 still happily Paid For The Linear Walkthrough Of The Graph.
Footnotes
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me included. ↩