Posts under ‘Creativity’

In a week where I’ll begin a short term, slightly dubious job, it’s time to continue talking about Writing a Book. But, see, there’s some connective sinew here. There’s reason to all this rambling, there usually might be, and here we go. Writing a book often becomes a full-time job. And not only just the [...]

This will be a brief post because it’s yoga night, there’s Lost to be watched, and dinner to be made.  Today’s topic is scheduling and how important it is for any writer ever. Anyone can pick up a book on keeping a schedule.  There are hundreds of thousands, flooding the market.  Books on scheduling your [...]

I’ll kick this off, finally, with something that has been on my mind a lot lately: hope and motivation. There’s this phenomenon with creative types where they need to keep themselves going.  That’s to say, when everything around them is crushing or there’s little to be excited or have faith in but something keeps them [...]

I’ve decided on a new aspect for this blog: the process of writing a book. The whole blog won’t just be this, of course, but I’d like to focus on it a bit more than anything else…anything else being that I haven’t written anything at all for quite some time.  As well, it’ll allow me [...]

Over the last month I’ve caught up on a lot of comics reading.  The reason being, I went to Fukuoka, Japan, have been sick, and was lazy. The main books I was and will be focusing on are Batman by Grant Morrison and Captain America by Ed Brubaker.  First off, I would like to state, [...]

I’ve been reading people’s complaints about Lost and feel I must chime in. After all, if there are to be this many detractors, someone has to come to its aid. Lost has, since immediately after season 1, completely gone off the rails. I don’t mean that in the sense that story or suspense has become [...]

Here’s a word cloud for this site. Impressed, eh? Create your own crap at Wordle.  And now I’m back to work.

There are words to describe <redacted to protect anonymity>.  You will find them in the following word cloud. I’m sure you now know why I couldn’t post that on Linkedin…because they would yell at me.

Laziness set in quickly.  Then, boredom.  Then, I got yelled at by my wife.  And now I’m trying harder. That sounds much harsher on my wife then it should.  She didn’t “yell” at me, per say, as much as read an essay by George Orwell about the downfall of writing and excerpts from a book [...]

The creative process is mythical and never clearly defined.  At no point in college does anyone say “this is how to write a story” and offer step-by-step instructions.  We required to figure it out for ourselves.  So, we spend time on ideas, accumulated into Moleskines or folders on your hard drive, and structure, on notecards [...]