I hear it a lot: I just need to carve out some time to write… I hear it at work, from friends, and read about it online. The concept is simple: I have all these things to do, and to tackle them all means I’ll have time carved out to do the thing I really […]
Archives for November 2016
The Effort Is Worth It
It’s a five-day weekend for me, which means yesterday was the beginning of my little break. I took it easy and got some reading done. One of the things I read was this interview with Colson Whitehead. Whitehead is one of those people I’ve followed for years without ever really reading. And that needs to […]
A Year Without Lumberjacks
Yesterday, Not about Lumberjacks turned one year old. It started with a story about a dog who eats everything in sight: “Gutterball.” As I’ve mentioned elsewhere, I ended up writing more new stories in the first year of the show than I planned. And the way those new stories developed has surprised me quite a […]
The Speed of Creativity
I work for a large software company. Recently, email was sent out that we could take “creativity” courses through one of our training sites. I went to check out one of the classes. I took the pre-test, a 4-question quiz to test how “creative” we already are. I missed half of them. Apparently I’m not […]
Is That All There Is
Last night the Chicago Cubs won the World Series. I was born less than three miles from Wrigley Field. The north side of Chicago is Cubs territory, through and through. Even people who don’t particularly like sports on the north side (yes, a handful of people like that do exist), still believed that every year […]