The Myth of Reasonable Goals
We’ve heard it all our lives: “Set goals, but set reasonable goals.” The thinking is, if you set illogical goals or outrageous goals and you don’t meet them, you’ll be disappointed and will stop moving forward. Perhaps if you have been stuck for a very long time and need simply to knock yourself off of [...]
The Myth of the Fragile Muse
In college, my major course of study was acting. The theatre department was run, at that small school, like a professional acting company, and we produced a minimum of five plays a year. Everyone in the department was expected to do every job in the theatre at least once, and everyone was expected to be [...]
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 [...]
The Myth of Rules
I often talk about writer’s myths, things people think of as writing rules that often just get in the way of good writing. Are their any rules for writing that the writer should be aware of? Certainly. One such rule is, “don’t use sentence fragments”. An example of a sentence fragment, for those who missed [...]
Post 20 – Myths
I have recently been accused of being reactionary. The person didn’t mean that I espouse ultra conservative political views, or that I want desperately to return to an older time. They meant that many of my posts on the process of writing during the 30 day blog challenge (Only ten more. It’s been quite a [...]
Post 14 – Good Enough
Writer James Thurber said, “Don’t get it right, get it written.” Musician Pat O’Bryan said, “You can work on an album until it’s perfect. And dead.” James Agee started writing A Death in the Family in 1948. He was still revising it in 1955 when he died. It was published posthumously. If you are striving [...]
Post 7 – The Myth of “Write What You Know”
We as writers have often heard the dictum or rule to “write what you know.” I first heard this when in grade school, and it really puzzled me. I liked to read fantasy stories and wondered how they were written if that rule were true. When I heard it, I had just read Mary Mapes [...]
Day 5 – The Myth of Writer’s Block
To continue the conversation started yesterday about myths, I would today like to attack a big one for writers, the myth of writer’s block. In our how-to guide, On Writing a Short Story, we touch on writer’s block and give strategies to overcome (or, more accurately, bypass) it. I’d like to go more in depth [...]
Day 4 – The Myth of Inspiration
I use the word “inspiration” a lot, but when I use it, I usually mean it in terms of wanting to achieve a greater good or aspire to a greater goal because of something or someone I have encountered along the way. Let’s use Nelson Mandela as an example. What he was able to do, [...]
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