This Post Is Not Really About Sex
I keep being pulled away from what I want to do (write, act, direct, create ephemera that is lasting) and into what I need to do (make a living, pay bills, fulfill commitments, be a friend.) The dream is to mesh the two into one glorious existence, but I haven’t yet found the wit or [...]
Getting Started
I have a habit, bad or good, I’ve no idea, where, once I’ve written something, I read over it several times, almost obsessively, trying to imagine what some other reader would think of it. I’m not sure why I do this, and I’ve always felt at least a little silly about it, but there it [...]
Post 23 – Writing a Short Story
I love short stories. I have read them all my life. I have had subscriptions to New Yorker, AGNI, Omni, Asimov and other magazines just so I could read the short stories. I have collections from Esquire and the Saturday Evening Post. And, of course, many, many collections of science fiction short stories. I have [...]
Post 10 – Avoid Clichés – Unless You Don’t
In yesterday’s post, I mentioned that I had a thought that I hoped wouldn’t become a cliché. It turned out that the thought was so cumbersome and convoluted that chances of that happening were very small. (I almost said moot, but that would be entirely too cliché.) However, it started my mind swirling around with [...]
Post 8 – The Power of Art
I had a conversation with a friend in high school, sometime back during the Lincoln administration, about art and society. She was a talented piano player and singer who was becoming disenchanted with art. She said that, with everything that was going on in the world, it seemed to her a life pursuing art was [...]
Thoughts on Self Publishing
We self-published Weeping Willow: Welcome to River Bend through a company called AuthorHouse. There were good and bad points to doing this, but overall we were very happy with the results and now we have a book that was a bestseller on Barnes and Noble! (Joe Vitale started out self publishing, and he also used [...]
On What it Means to be a Writer
Lots of people talk about what it takes to write. And what it takes when you feel “writer’s block.” The definition of a writer is “one who writes”. That’s it. That’s all. That doesn’t take confidence. Or talent, whatever that means. Usually people make it too complicated. We once heard of something that really helps: [...]
Answers to Your First Batch of Questions
We recently sent out a note to our subscribers asking for questions about writing. (You can still ask more questions. Just go here: http://www.TipsOnWriting.net/question.html ) We also asked for any other type of questions, but didn’t promise any accuracy in those answers. We really don’t know who put the bop in the bop she bop [...]
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