A man who can’t bear to share his habits is a man who needs to quit them. Stephen King, The Dark Tower Settling back into writing makes me fully understand what the Tin Man was going through. The cumulative seconds, minutes, hours of staring at the blinking cursor and fighting internal battles over character motivations …
People crave the familiar yet seek the novel. Allen Gannett, The Creative Curve: How to Develop the Right Idea at the Right Time It seems like every week I make some new discovery about my writing processes that is equal parts worthwhile and frustrating. This time around, it’s about how hopelessly drawn to new ideas …
Don’t let yourself off the hook with excuses. Jason Fried, Rework No matter how many times you do something, there’s always more to discover. Take, for instance, writing a novel. You can be the kind of person that takes years to complete a draft only to throw it out and start over, then move on …
Every artists knows you don’t make the things you make, you submit to the things you make. Andrew Klavan Took me a while to get here, but I’ve finished my preliminary review of Residuum. Ever since I got it into my thick skull that I needed to facilitate a return to focusing on my creative …
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 …
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 …
Themeattics 