Some people are solving major world problems, and I’m over here all excited because I found a missing sock inside a pair of my underwear. Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One Allowing myself a bit of a shorty post, not because there’s nothing to talk about – obviously, have you seen …
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 …
In short, we can only learn from our “betters.” Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading With the first week of school in the books and a weekend of family time at a close, I’m running up on the clock here so I guess it’s time for another …
You have as many options as you give yourself. Kasie West, The Distance Between Us Greetings, Dwellers. Today has provided a bit of a challenge in discerning a topic. Some of you may remember I had an outline of weekly topics for the entire year, and while yes, that’s still true, sometimes I lack the time …
The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic. G.K. Chesterton, The Blue Cross: A Father Brown Mystery Everywhere I look these days, it seems the cool thing is now to be the critic. And, to be fair, I can understand why. There’s no shortage of media out there, what with the increasingly …
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 …
The bomb lives only as it is falling. Iain M Banks, Use of Weapons Greetings, Dwellers, and welcome to a long-overdue review of Iain M. Banks’ Culture “series” – the novels that, in part, led to the moniker I use for all you lovely people. Now, before I begin, I’d just like to say that …
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