Category Archives: Writing
The Return
I am back from my brief hiatus. Since my last blog post, I got my first ever smart phone (I know), my sister and her daughter visited the house, I finished watching a series of 48 lectures on DVD about ancient Egyptian history that I bought from The Great Courses, had dinner with a friend, …
Off Next Week
Not that I feel anyone sets a schedule based on my publishing posts here on the blog, but as a general matter of courtesy I wanted to mention that I’ll be taking next week off from blogging. (Unless something really great happens unexpectedly, I suppose.) This is a medium-sized deal, because I don’t think I’ve …
Yes, I Want People to Read My Writing
Imagine a chamber where every last possible aspect of writing is discussed by someone. Many someones in fact. This isn’t an organized chamber run by Robert’s Rules of Order, oh no. It’s a place where writers expound upon writing itself. Imagine Raphael’s The School of Athens, with less organization and more laptops and coffee. Many in the …
Rewrite Somebody Else’s Stuff
Need some writing practice? (Who doesn’t?) Want to keep the imagination warm without wracking your brain to come up with a new concept or project? Rewrite somebody else’s stuff. Of course don’t try to publish the result unless your source material is in the public domain. Even then, however, I think the experience would be …
5 Acceptable Online Time Sucks for Writers
Time sucks. They’re everywhere online. Nobody is immune to them. Anybody with access to the internet will at some point lose productivity by falling into a whirlpool of memes, videos, celebrity gossip, Candy Crush games, or all of the above. It’s the nature of our species these days. It starts out with you double-checking where in …
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