Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings. Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft I like to think there are two kinds of budding creatives: the ones that hate everything they make until they get to editing, and the ones that love …
Do or do not. There is no try. Yoda, The Empire Strikes Back I’ve come to accept the fact that none of my ambitions get done if I’m not tracking them, and even then it’s difficult to keep on task if I’m not having someone keep me accountable. I have terrible discipline – something I’m …
It doesn’t ring true in the slightest because it’s trying to force a situation that can’t happen organically. The Critical Drinker I took a rather extended pause on continuing work for my next novel, Catalyst, after NaNoWriMo 2021 came to a close. This was due to several factors – I was a little burned out …
Perhaps we reveal ourselves too much in small things because we have so little of the great to conceal. Kakuzō Okakura Been a hot minute, hasn’t it? I’ve been in a bad way of late, and this was one of the things that fell by the wayside. Not a good look when I’m angling for …
Do. Or do not. There is no try. Yoda, The Empire Strikes Back Well, it’s over. I’ve checked the calendar a couple of times today – not that I needed to being Halloween and all, hard to miss all that going on – and the clock many, many more. Just did again, in fact, to …
Success is about handling the setbacks, problems and mess, over and over. Sharon Pearson Pictured above: Pain. And, no, not just because I’m out of town and don’t have access to anything to make it less ugly. Because of the obvious part – the fact that you could look back to the first entry and …
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. F. Scott Fitzgerald In the closing paragraph of my post on rationalization, I mentioned that I was coming up on a few months of extreme workload. Now that I’m here for the one month recap, I realize I never actually got into what that meant, so …
The problem with “everything” is that it ends up looking an awful lot like nothing: just one long haze of frantic activity, with all the meaning sheared away. Katherine May, Wintering: How I learned to flourish when life became frozen One of the most unfortunate things about humanity is that experience makes our best teacher. …
When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look at the forest. Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft Up until roughly five minutes ago, I loathed editing. Nothing about it felt like creation – all destruction, …
Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open. Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft As I mentioned last week, the first draft of my “first” novel, Residuum, is a wrap. This week I’ve been doing a read-over of the whole thing since, true to form, I took more than a …
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