Sunday, I used ye olde random number generator to determine who won the Kindle Touch I’m giving away for the Hell Comes with Wood Paneled Doors essay contest. Congratulations to Anita Callender!
A Busy Weekend
This weekend (Sunday), I’m speaking at Emerging Tech Conference Dallas. Sunday at 1:00, I’m talking about the Benefits of Sequential Content. If you’re in the area and looking for something to do this weekend, you can do much worse than coming to Grapevine and listening to all kinds of cool people talking about new media. […]
Chris Ware Interview
I think the first Chris Ware comic work I saw was in Jab Comics Anthology (not to be confused with the adult comic), in the early 90s. (His little potato guy strips.) Some time after that, it was Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth and all that followed. Ware is one of those cartoonists […]
Neil Gaiman’s University of the Arts Commencement Speech
Neil Gaiman Addresses the University of the Arts Class of 2012 from The University of the Arts (Phl) on Vimeo. The first issue of Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman I picked up was #8. I’d recently gotten back into comic books and it just looked cool. (It was!) I’ve had the chance of meeting him in […]
Road Trip Essay Reminder
I previously mentioned that I’m giving away a Kindle Touch as part of an essay contest for the relaunch of Hell Comes with Wood Paneled Doors. I love the entries I’ve received so far, and look forward to reading more. Last week, I made a little video reminder about the contest in which I show […]
How Long Does Good Writing Take?
10,000 hours (Failed Writer Series #11) from Yuvi Zalkow on Vimeo. I’ve known more than a few people who have tried something creative a handful of times, not been pleased with the results, and moveed on to something else. It’s like they really think a) it’s that easy or b) that they miraculously have what […]
The Importance of Stories
If you’ve ever doubted how important a story can be to somebody, watch this (NSFW: some swearing): The quick version of the story: A guy’s friend has terminal cancer and may be dead by June. So the guy jumps online and explains that it would mean so much if his friend could find out how […]
101 Days Without Social Media
Today at 8:00 p.m. is the end: 101 days without social media. I made it. I’d like to say it had a profound effect on me. In some ways, at least initially, it did. Then it was just a no-issue kind of thing I didn’t think about much. It was no longer, “I’m giving something […]
The Color of Writing
I’ve mentioned before that I like learning things about writing from artists. If you think about the line work (the actual drawing) Quentin Blake talks about in the video above as plot and the color as prose, there’s something to be learned here.
Evernote for Writers
I’m a big fan of Evernote. If you’re not familiar with Evernote, check out this video and then wander to my Evernote for Writers page for a more detailed tutorial. If you’re familiar with Evernote, but have never really used it for writing research, check out the video for some tips, and check out the […]
All Writing Looks the Same
Readers liked the last video I did for The Juggling Writer, so here’s another — this time, about how all writing, physically, looks relatively the same. When you think about it, there’s not much difference in the look of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Snooki’s A Shore Thing…but they are definitely different books! […]
The Benefits of Sequential Content (Video)
I finally got around to breaking up the video of the presentation I gave last week about using WordPress to manage online sequential content. Thanks to the Art Institute in Dallas and the Dallas/Fort Worth WordPress Meetup group–I had a great time! For those who have been asking, here are the videos:
How to Declutter Your Desk
In his book, On Writing: 10th Anniversary Edition: A Memoir of the Craft (Affiliate Link), Stephen King talks about how he once bought the perfect writing desk — the kind of desk he always thought a writer should have. It didn’t work for him. * * * There are times I think about having “the […]