Writing

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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