Right now I’m working and can hear the TV in the living room. In an ideal world, my wife and I would have plenty of room to spread out and fall completely into our own little worlds for as long as we needed to create. But that’s not happening anytime soon; we share less than […]
Archives for December 2010
Merlin Mann Talks About Creativity
Erik Lundy is a very funny guy and one of the people in my closest circle of creative friends with whom I chat about anything and everything. I’ve never met Erik in real life, even though he lives in the same town in Missouri where my father lived. Still, that hasn’t stopped us from talking […]
The Influence of Movies
When I was a kid, my father took me to movies I shouldn’t have been seeing when I was 5 or 6. When The Enforcer came out, the theater ran the original Dirty Harry along with it. More than remembering the movie, I remember the theater — how it smelled like smoke, sweat, and the […]
Agents’ Week Off (From Us)
I hear people complain about all the e-mail they receive throughout the day. Most of it is spam, or mailing lists they’ve signed up for, but never unsubscribed from. Many of the people I hear complaining about their full inboxes are writers — the same writers who have no problem sending out blanket queries to […]
The Juggling Writer Podcast – What Would You Like To Hear?
I’ve been having a blast doing the Hell Comes With Wood Paneled Doors podcast. I’ve mentioned before that I want to do a Juggling Writer Podcast. I’m still thinking about it… Some Ideas I don’t want the podcast to be the exact same content covered by The Juggling Writer blog. While I know there are […]