Don’t worry about the horse being blind

Sep 16, 2013 | Writing A Book

Alabama head coach Nick Saban has a “system.” Football coach and genuine character John Madden had a saying: “Don’t worry about the horse being blind. Just load the wagon.”

They’re both after the same thing. They want their players to concentrate on their individual job and not worry about strategy or the score or whether it will rain. If you want to write a book, that’s your challenge, too.

Don’t worry about the horse being blind. Just load the wagon.

Just write. Get it out. Get it down. Then you can do something with it.

Don’t worry about spelling or grammar or fine phrasing in that first, zero draft. After you write, you can make it pretty. You can mold it into a book. You can immortalize it in a tattoo. But you can’t do anything with it until you write it.

Don’t worry about the horse being blind. Just load the wagon.