Yeah, serious subject line. But it is a new(ish) year and we all need to climb back on the horse right? Push through to the end, get this project finished (whatever it is you’re working on) I only bring this up in relation to what I’ve been reading recently. Read more…
So how have we (and by that I mean ‘I’ of course) been doing in scaling the walls of this rut? Not very well it seems. Still too many of those distractions lurking about. So I’d like to explore some other idea’s about maintaining focus. Read more…
About a month back I had a dream. Yeah, sure, nothing remarkable about that. We all have them. Why should we care? Well, this was one of those vivid, weirdly coherent dreams. It kinda made sense at the time, but thinking about it now, it actually didn’t really make a whole lot of sense. Dreams are like that. Read more…
You know what really bugs me? Famous people. Famous people and their dull uninteresting lives. What particularly bugs me about it is the fact that they get books written about their dull uninteresting lives. What about the rest of us? Shouldn’t we get books written about our dull uninteresting lives too? Read more…
Yes, another post about editing. They seem to be de rigueur these days. Well, for the past couple of weeks I’ve been doing a serious sort out of all my writing. Sort of a spring clean as it were. And my fellow writers, if you’re anything like me, then there will come a point when you will have a number of different projects, in various stages of completion, because (like me) you may be a project skipper in order to avoid actually finishing anything. Read more…
This week, I finally got started on a new project. ‘A new project!?’ you may protest, ‘but what about all the other projects that remain unfinished?’ Well this one is different. This project is a collaboration with someone else, and also, it isn’t really new. The pair of us have been throwing ideas around for this for a few years now. Read more…
So I actually managed to get some writing done this week. Whoop for me. I did of course do the cowardly writing thing and actually just re-work material that that I’d already written, but it’s a start, right? Read more…
Ok, I’m going to be honest. I haven’t done any writing in weeks. Now I’m going to be brutally honest. I haven’t done any worthwhile writing since probably last year. Why? Because of the enemy. Read more…
Recently, I returned my attention to an older project that I really wanted to sink my teeth into. When I last left it, I’d received feedback from one of my friends who told me, in no uncertain terms, that it sucked. This is fair enough. One of the things you have to learn as a writer (or as someone who works in any artistic medium) is to learn how to take criticism. So, after lots of bawling, and weeping, and casting curses on his name, I actually sat down and looked at the feedback he’d given me. Namely the ‘it sucks’ part. Read more…
After a brief discussion with Jeff Baker, I hit upon the idea of extending a comment that I made regarding back story. One could say I was inspired by what I said *laughs at own joke*. Read more…