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 […]
Writing for Different Mediums
On November 19, my novella Old Man will be released as an e-book. Old Man is years in the making, originally intended as a comic book. When that didn’t work out, it became a well-received screenplay. And…when that didn’t work out, it became an e-book. I’m glad that it made it to a novella because […]
In Praise of Slow Writing
The advice goes something like this: Write as much as you can, as fast as you can. Always be “delivering.” The more you produce, the more money you will make. Speed, speed, speed!!! It works for some. If you’re writing a series, there are worse things in the world than fans wanting your next book […]
The Cult of Failure
Check out many business blogs, and there it is: talk about failure being a great thing! “It’s cool to fail because failing means you’re taking risks!” “It’s cool to fail because it means you’re learning!” “It’s cool to fail because I read somewhere that it’s cool to fail, so failure is cool…and I can’t wait […]
An Honest Assessment (Of Your Own Work)
Writers have a reputation for being a bit defensive. Really, it extends to artists and many other creative endeavors. (Hell, it’s really just a human trait.) People are often their own worst critics. Despite people claiming to be their own worst critics, feelings for what one does are often kept inside. It’s not that often […]
How to do Things
I have a LiveJournal account I rarely update anymore. About the only thing I do with it these days is look at the archives on whatever day it happens to be when I remember to take a look (e.g. it’s currently July 14 (I write blog entries on weekends), so I can look back over […]
Talking about Writing
I haven’t talked too much about the weekly podcast I do with Shawn Kupfer. Next week will mark putting out a weekly show for half a year. Our 24th episode will be all about cooking and eating. That’s why I don’t talk about the podcast that much, here — what we talk about, more times […]
The Weight of Words
I’m not saying this is the last Lifehacker article I’ll ever read, but I find it funny that it’s the last article I read before removing Lifehacker from my blog reader. (The article is about clutter, and for me, Lifehacker in my blog reader has become clutter.) It’s not that I have anything against Lifehacker, […]
Must Catch All the Things!
Previously, I mentioned that I may never stumble upon what would have been my all-time favorite thing. The point was to discuss just how much good stuff is out there. The doomsayers who claim, “Things aren’t good anymore,” aren’t looking right in front of their faces — good stuff is all over the place! Having […]
Writing Retreat
Last weekend, a friend and I left our jobs behind on a Friday, said goodbye to our families, and ventured to [almost] east Texas — to a cabin at Cooper Lake State Park. Our plan was simple: we would write, hike, chat, and write some more. While the hike never happened (we found ourselves content […]
Best of The Juggling Writer – 2012
2012 was a year of change for me. Not in the writing I did, but in my views as a writer. I didn’t realize it until looking back over the year. I wouldn’t go as far as saying everything I thought about writing changed this year, but in the change that happened I found myself […]
Email Newsletters the John Picacio Way
A confession: I’m terrible about building my email newsletter mailing list. The small handful of people who have signed up are loyal and cherished, but I have always felt strange about hitting people up to see if they’d like my occasional messages and information. It tends to be a seasonal thing instead of monthly, as […]
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