Writing

Today, I start writing the shitty first draft

July 26, 2011

If you haven’t got an idea, start a story anyway. You can always throw it away, and maybe by the time you get to the fourth page you will have an idea, and you’ll only have to throw away the first three pages. - William Campbell Gault I start new writing projects with the ease of a toothless [...]

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Nulla dies sine linea

May 2, 2011

“Not a day without a line. By writing, reading, working and practicing daily, perseverance will lead me to a good end.” – Vincent Van Gogh Not a day without a line. I love that idea, that commitment. Whatever your endeavor — writing, painting, learning a new language, earning a degree, etc. — this is the [...]

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Maybe…for 31 Days

May 1, 2011

This month’s theme on National Blog Posting Month (NaBloPoMo) is “Maybe”. I tried doing this daily-blogging-for-a-whole-month business once before in October 2009, but I gave up after a week. And like most NaBloPoMo themes since then, I wasn’t planning on participating in this one either. But I’ve reconsidered because I’m attempting to do some of [...]

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I’m pretty sure every writer needs a TARDIS

April 13, 2011

I was sitting on the couch with a spiral notebook last night, watching some Doctor Who, and occasionally sketching out a scene for my Script Frenzy project, when something very obvious occurred to me: This is not the best way to work. Of course, this didn’t stop me from sitting there, did it? Then something [...]

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Get the Clay on the Table

January 6, 2011

This year, I’m focusing on writing. One of my biggest problems with getting it down on paper is that I think about random scenes that go somewhere in the story, but I don’t like to write them down as they come to me. I like to write them down linearly, as they fall into place [...]

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Breaking Down And Buying MacJournal…I Suppose

December 26, 2010

I’ve been meaning to take Mariner’s MacJournal for a spin for a long while now, and since it’s the end of the year, and I’m gearing up, planning, plotting, scheming, and laying the groundwork for 2011, I thought this would be a good time to download a trial version (free to use for 15 days) [...]

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Fortune Cookie Story Project: 1 – Just Another 135 Years at the Office

June 22, 2010

My first short story based on a fortune cookie fortune is ready, if you’d like to read it. DOWNLOAD – Just Another 135 Years at the Office – PDF Or you can read it here (and after the break) The Fortune Cookie Story Project – I write a 2- or 3-page short story based on [...]

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The Fortune Cookie Story Project Begins

June 9, 2010

One of the first ideas I put in the daybook was that I would spend a month or two writing 2- or 3-page stories based on…wait for it…fortune cookies. For some reason, I thought doing this would be good writing practice. So, last weekend, when Cindy said she needed rice wraps from the Asian food [...]

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Using a Daybook to Develop My Creative Habit

June 7, 2010

I’m trying a new experiment (partly inspired by Merlin Mann). I’ve decided to keep a daybook, which is simply a notebook that I write in…uh, daily. Some people use them strictly for a single purpose or project, but I’m using mine for everything: grocery lists, short story ideas, project ideas, screenplay ideas, short scenes that [...]

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Deeper Motive

June 29, 2009

As many of you know, I have a bazillion projects that I never quite get around to…but this is changing. My new site, Deeper Motive will be the place where you can track my progress on whatever project — creative or otherwise — I’m working on. I see it as a place to explore my [...]

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