This is Just Terrible! – An Important Part of the Writing Process
When Steve and I write together, at least once during every project Steve will lament, “There’s no story, there’s nothing going on, there’s no conflict, it’s not funny!” He’s only partly joking when he does it. No matter how much thought, imagination, preparation and care we’ve put into the project, there is often a point [...]
Make Writing a Job
I’ve talked before about scheduling writing, treating it as a job, but even I forget my own advice sometimes. As I mentioned in my last post, I’ve been pining for the day when I had the luxury to write the book that has been forming in my head for several months. When I got the [...]
Putting Off Procrastination
Writers often find the most creative excuses not to write. We will use anything from messy desks to low biorhythms to avoid getting down to business. Creativity is fragile, we think, and we mustn’t jostle it. I am as guilty of this as anyone. And I know that creativity isn’t fragile at all, it’s hale [...]
Fireworks
My writing partner Steve’s favorite two holidays aren’t Christmas or Thanksgiving, they’re Hollowe’en and 4th of July. Both offer an element of mischief (good, clean, fun, American mischief, of course) and both offer some wonderful spectacle. 4th of July in the United States is a time of celebrating our independence, (it was from England, for [...]
Interview with Terrie Wurzbacher about Creativity
Last week, I was interviewed by Terrie Wurzbacker of Getting Unstuck, LLC. We had a fairly rollicking time, talking about creativity, the process of writing and writer’s myths. We also digress into some odd and interesting subjects. Powered by Podbean.com You can also listen to it over on Terrie’s blog, From the Desk of Terrie [...]
Blogging – Whys and Wherefores
I came to the Internet fairly early. I was on several of the early bulletin board services with my very slow modem back during the dark ages before the Internet was invented. Then I joined AOL. How exciting was that? (Yes, I still have my AOL account all these many years later. I have my [...]
Be a Tree
There is an exercise that is often taught in acting classes, and most actors hate it. They not only hate it, they deride it and spend countless years after their initial training parodying it and using it as an example of why it’s completely useless to study acting. That exercise is to “Be a Tree.” [...]
Write What You See, Not What You Think You See
I took a drawing class once, not sure from whom, I was in high school at the time, where the teacher said, “Draw what you see, not what you think you see.” After a moment to process this, my drawing improved unbelievably quickly. I was drawing a face at the time. I had put a [...]
Look After Your Gnome
We all have gnomes that follow us around and pop up at the most inopportune time. Some of yours might be named “I’m Just Not Good Enough” or “They Must Know Better Than Me” and “I’m Not Capable”. A writer might have a gnome called “No One Would Care About What I Have to Say” [...]
Writing Novels
Besides Weeping Willow, the book I wrote with Steve Mancini, I have written three novels (at least one of which should be published this year, a science fiction odyssey called Guardian Mosaic.) I am in the process of mapping out another one right now. While doing it, I am taking a sort of omniscient view [...]
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