Category Archives: Writing
A Movie Recommendation for Writers
This isn’t a movie review, per se. I’m not going to get into the particular cinematic strengths and weaknesses of the piece in question. I will, however, strongly advise anyone that is serious about writing to check out Howl, starring James Franco. The movie is several years old, so it’s probably old news to many …
Nanowrimo 2014
It’s almost that time again. In little over a month, Nanowrimo (National Novel Writing Month) will be in full swing again. I will once again take part. Sort of. I decided last week I was going to be what they call a Nano rebel. I will not write a novel this November. Rather, I will …
My Comments Featured on Writers Website
This may be a bit of a cheat in regards to a blog post, but since it happened today and I wanted to share it with my blog readers and others, I will point it out here. Some of my comments about my Nanowrimo 2013 experience appeared on the Writer’s Digest website. A few months …
Fall in Love with Ideas
As a writer, (as well as an actor), I need to fall in love with ideas. Not just whole, realized ideas, mind you. But fragments, snippets, questions, warped perceptions of previous ideas. Just about all of them. It’s true that any creative idea could spark something that becomes a full fledged project, and that’s great. …
“Writer’s Weight”
You know what you want to write today. The idea is there, you may even have an outline. You’re not under a particularly tight deadline with this one. In some ways you’ve been looking forward to this. You are not feeling at all lazy. In fact you’re rearing to go. Then you sit down to …
Ty Unglebower 