I listened to this episode of the A Tiny Sense of Accomplishment podcast yesterday. I loved Jess Walter’s point about the importance of the page (as it relates to writing). During a live interview before an audience in Minneapolis, when asked who he writes for, he replied: There was a book a while back in […]
Archives for May 2015
All the Things
This week, I seem to have bumped into articles and videos about how multitasking and other hurried methods of producing usually have a negative effect on production…or it’s just where my mind is at this week and those articles stood out more. (My guess: the latter situation.) Sometimes I think about moving on to a […]
Surrounding Yourself (with Writing)
One of my favorite podcasts is Otherppl with Brad Listi. (If fact, it’s the only podcast to which I’ve subscribed to premium content; after all, it’s less than $10.00/year.) I love the way Listi digs and gets writers to talk not just about their writing in ways they usually don’t discuss, but their lives and […]
The Forged Work of a Lifetime
Reading this piece about John Steinbeck during lunch yesterday got me thinking about what is lost in one’s pursuit of what they love doing when bound by other things. Before getting to that, though, a bit about Steinbeck’s writing. There is Something More, Here I’ve mentioned plenty of times that I came to literary/contemporary literature […]
A Time to Write
I got into a bad habit the past week. I allowed myself to do other things before writing: Let me edit this podcast… Let me clean the kitchen… Let me run these errands… Let me do this and that…and then I’ll write. The problem is, I haven’t written as much as usual since returning from […]