This was supposed to be a podcast episode I did with Matthew Dick, but my audio file was damaged, so I am sharing my opinion of the book.
About Matthew Dicks
Matthew Dicks is a novelist, storyteller, columnist, playwright, blogger, and teacher.
His first novel, Something Missing, was published in 2009. He has since published Unexpectedly, Milo (2010), Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend (2012), The Perfect Comeback of Caroline Jacobs (2014), Twenty-one Truths About Love (2019), and The Other Mother (2020). Dicks’ novels have been translated into 26 different languages. He publishes in the UK under the pseudonym Matthew Green.
Dicks has also published two nonfiction books: Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling and Someday Is Today: 22 Simple, Actionable Ways to Propel Your Creative Life.
Dicks is the humor columnist for Seasons magazine and writes the Ask a Teacher column for Slate magazine. His work has also appeared in The Hartford Courant, Reader’s Digest, Parents magazine and The Christian Science Monitor. He is the creator and cohost of the weekly podcasts Speak Up Storytelling and Boy vs. Girl.
Where to find Mathew Dicks
Mathew Dicks website
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Someday Is Today: 22 Simple, Actionable Ways to Propel Your Creative Life
Are you good at dreaming about what you’re going to accomplish “someday” but not good at finding the time and getting started? How will you actually make that decision and do it? The answer is this book, which offers proven, practical, and simple ways to turn random minutes throughout your days into pockets of productivity, and dreams into accomplishments.
In addition to presenting his own winning strategies for getting from dreaming to doing, Matthew Dicks offers insights from a wide range of creative people—writers, editors, performers, artists, and even magicians—on how to augment inspiration with motivation. His actionable steps will help you:
- silence negative messages from family, friends, and teachers
- eliminate time-sucking activities (and people)
- be willing to make terrible things
- find supporters here, there, and everywhere
- cultivate optimism in the face of negativity and obstacles
Each strategy is accompanied by amusing and inspiring personal and professional anecdotes and a clear plan of action. Someday Is Today will give you every tool to get started and finish that _________ [fill in the blank].