Writing Tips
A Desperate Turn to Scheduling
This is a short practical post today. My last post was a declaration of war (I mean a declaration of writing,) this one will follow with what every succesful campaign needs: a battle plan. No matter how well intentioned our declarations and resolutions might be, nothing will change unless we change it. I cannot approach […]
A Failure to Defend: a Brutal Look at Excuse Making
There is a line that most of us are very bad at holding, it is a line that must be drawn and closely guarded if we are going to succeed in our chosen creative fields. Those of us who have work outside of our own projects are constantly juggling our time. When those day jobs […]
The Unmapped Life of a Creative
The hardest part of living life as a Creative in any form is that it’s not just taking the road less traveled it’s stepping off the road all together. Go read as many interviews with authors, screenwriters, artists, graphic designers, and the rest, that you can find and I can guarantee that no two “origin […]
A Bad Book’s Good Side
We’ve all been there. We’ve picked up a book that promised a wonderful escape from the tedium of our days and found ourselves increasingly disappointed. In the roulette that is book buying, we lost. Now, for those of us who are writers, this is not a total loss. Though not the adventure we hoped would […]