1. Wake up a little late, and don’t get to anything productive until something past 8:30. This is actually a great way to not write. 2. Start by focusing on something actually important that is not focused on creating words. Like tax preparation. This is what I did today, and it quite easily ate up […]
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Getting my act together
The Oregon Coast workshop kind of kicked my butt. Buy that, I mean it was more work than I had planned for, and as such it’s taken me a little mind-shifting to get myself back on my path. One major thing I took away from it was that as a new freelancer, I needed to […]
Read More ...Reading … Reading … Reading … the lull after the storm
Yes, it’s been quiet around here for a bit. I know. There are reasons, of course, and of course they are mostly self-inflicted (in the good way). I’ve noted before that I’m getting ready to attend a workshop in Oregon with Brigid (and Lisa Silverthorne, and several other great writers). It’s going to be much […]
Read More ...Hard work … the ticket to the game of creativity?
Even after all this time, I still get surprised about how this whole creativity thing works. You see, I’ve spent at least four days working on a final short story that’s due for the workshop I’m going to later this month. I’m sure I’ve spent at least 20 hours on it (probably more like 30). […]
Read More ...Poor Lisa
So, Brigid and I are planning to attend a workshop together in late February, which will be pretty danged cool–at least for me. On her side, she’s going to have to put up with being around her dorky dad for a week. My guess is that she’ll run off and hide with some other writers […]
Read More ...A story, stumbled upon
So I’m down in the basement today working away at this short story that’s due for a workshop by the end of Sunday. No problem. I’ve actually been fiddling with it for two days, and all is well. It’s a fine story. I am not disappointed in it. Then, through a serendipitous event or three, […]
Read More ...What would a Zeppelin ticket go for today?
Apropos of nothing, I as made a feeble attempt at writing a steam punk story this past week, in which no zeppelins appear. This, I assume, will be a problem. # So, today, the local radio station we listen to in the morning had one of those silly little trivia things they do to give […]
Read More ...Project manager vs. the artist: A Discussion of Time
Yes, it’s a very strange place, this space between my ears. It’s a place that stretches time, that plays with it, and that sometimes even pretends that time is something real. # Now that I am writing full time, I find that I am becoming considerably more sensitive to the passage of time within any […]
Read More ...Should you pose like Super Man/Wonder Woman?
I’ve been working on this short story now for over a week. It’s going to end up at about 6K words, which is fine. A story needs to be whatever it’s going to be. But it’s a complex story, and it’s taken a lot of writing and rethinking. Yesterday I was stuck, and I was […]
Read More ...Clutching stories in the snow
This morning started, like so many December mornings seem to, with a quick running of the snow shovel over the driveway. Hmpf. In more interesting “news,” I woke up today with something I’ll call a full story stuck in my mind. So, once the driveway was done and the beloved wife deposited at her place […]
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