Category Archives: Writing
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 …
A Writer’s Labor Day
Writing is a labor. It won’t usually break your back or make you perspire. There is generally no threat to your life or limb when you write, nor is there much need to lift 50 pounds at a time when you do it. In most cases you don’t get dirty, have to travel long distances …
Four Ways to Work on Writing Without Writing
You don’t have to write every day. I’ve said it a million times on this blog and I still believe it. You absolutely must make regular progress on your writing, lest inertia put a stop to all of your endeavors. In many cases it’s easier to not do hard work than it is to do …
The Introverted Writer’s Dilemma
You readers of this blog should know by now that I’m an introvert, and happily so. I don’t consider myself, or any given introvert superior to extroverted types, as there are pluses and minuses to both temperaments. That extends to my writing as well. The vast majority of time, I consider my introversion a plus …
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