I have always admired artists. They can hold up their work and, in an instant, an audience can tell if they like it or not. I’ve talked about it before: when it comes to a properly formatted manuscript — physically — they all look the same. (Man, that’s a shoddy video! But…it’s how one learns!) […]
Looking Through an Old Lens
I follow quite a few photographers from my Google Plus account and from my Flickr account. Every so often, I see someone post images taken with an old camera that impress others. I’ve seen people modify digital cameras with old lenses. Again, people are impressed by the results. For all that can be done with […]
Inspiration from Unlikely Places
Three of my favorite books about writing are Stephen King’s On Writing, Haruki Murakami’s What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, and Ann Patchett’s The Getaway Car. In King’s book, it’s not the actual part about writing that I love best — it’s the part about his life and becoming a writer. I […]
Year 45
I make a living with words, but words do not come easy to me. In my head, I can see it all laid out in the most perfect state. It doesn’t matter if it’s fiction or technical writing — up top, I know the potential of what I can do. Getting there is another thing… […]
Caddo Lake State Park Writing Retreat
A couple weeks ago, I mentioned a second annual writing retreat was happening. With last year’s retreat a success, there was no way a friend and I weren’t going to make it an annual thing. There are plenty of lakes with weekend cabins not too far away, and thanks to the mightiness that is the […]
How to Find Time to Write
I preface this with the usual sentiment of everything I write where advice is offered: these are only suggestions. As adults, if we want to spend all our free time watching TV or playing video games, who am I to say you shouldn’t do that? One of the best things about being an adult: once […]
A Second Retreat
In ten days, I’ll be in East Texas — holed up in a cabin and writing all weekend. Last year’s writing retreat — the first — was enough of a success that this year merited an even better place (Caddo Lake State Park)…a bit earlier in the season, in the hope of cooler weather than […]
How to End a Novel
It’s been a while since I made a writing video… It’s been a while since I’ve made any kind of video… Work, life, and some other busy things have meant — in recent months — that I’ve only been able to work on writing…not writing and blogging and making the occasional video on the side. […]
On Audience and the Writing We Do
I’m still alive (writing and, at least for the rest of March, putting in extra hours at work). There’s a certain pride in still writing fiction during crunch time during a release at work requiring some extra [tech] writing. Busy times…looking forward to April. Later in April is a mini writing retreat, similar to the […]
Body of Work
[Cross-posted from my personal blog.] * * * I’ve talked before about creating a body of work before (even used an image of piled wood to make the point). In fact, that post was in honor of the 25th episode of the Men in Gorilla Suits podcast. Today marks Episode 53 — our one-year anniversary! […]
E-Hermitage
With the shift to so many digital things, it seems the “e-” prefix can be attached to anything: e-book, e-commerce, e-trading, e-business, e-signature, e-etc. As 2014 approaches, I propose a new e-thing: e-hermitage! E-Hermitage I’ve written about my experiences taking a 101-day social media break. I even followed up with additional thoughts after returning. I […]
I’m Not Good at Self Promotion
I’ve said before that when it comes to self promotion, I’m not the best. Want proof? Over a month ago, I had a novella called Old Man released as an ebook. Now, I did write a blog entry about writing the same story in different formats shortly before Old Man was released. But I never […]
Getting the Jump on New Year’s Resolutions
It’s a simple pleasure: driving along in an open lane on a wide road and having a light turn green right before needing to slow down. All the cars standing still from the red light begin their crawl through the intersection, but you sail through. Every year, so many people make resolutions for the new […]
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