7-40 Challenge | 6-22-2026 I cut almost half of my first novel in editing. Scenes I loved. Lines I was proud of. Whole subplots I'd spent weeks building. Every cut made the book better. This round, I did the same thing to my year. I started 2026 with a list of everything I wanted to … Continue reading Editing Life
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Ten Thousand
7-40 Challenge | Round 4, Day 35 BiblePictures365 hit 10,000 followers on Instagram today. On January 1, I had zero. No audience. No following. No track record. Just an idea — one image per chapter, every day for a year reading through the whole Bible— and enough stubbornness to start posting before anyone was watching. … Continue reading Ten Thousand
Less Famous, More Trusted
7-40 Challenge | Round 4, Day 34 Seth Godin dropped nineteen points about marketing in the age of AI. Three of them stopped me cold. "Stop trying to be famous. The goal is not to get more famous. The goal is to get less famous and more trusted." I've spent most of this year building … Continue reading Less Famous, More Trusted
Get Them Out
7-40 Challenge | Round 4, Day 32 I went for a walk this afternoon with a small headache and vague tension in my chest — the kind that comes from knowing you have something to get out but not being able to see it clearly yet. By the time I got done, I had a … Continue reading Get Them Out
The Short Letter
7-40 Challenge | Round 4, Day 30 There's a quote attributed to Blaise Pascal: "I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time." Most people read that as a joke about editing. It's not. It's one of the truest things ever said about how real clarity works. The simple version … Continue reading The Short Letter
David Willis 