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My Metric System
One under-reported way that 2016 sucked is that I didn’t write as much as I could have. A thing I’ve been doing to try to improve my writing productivity – which is a thing I surely feel the need to … Continue reading
TMoRP – Having written
I’m a prize procrastinator. I was talking to a writer buddy today about our respective story outputs this year – this is the kind of riveting conversation you get when writers meet each other [1] – and he took me … Continue reading
Dandelions and the futility of planning
One of the complaints you might hear about being a “plotter” – which is to say a writer who carefully plans a piece and then writes from an outline – is that it sucks all the creativity out of the … Continue reading
Grasping the nettle
I’ve been thinking about opportunity. Like probably every other human activity, getting ahead in the writing game is about two things – putting in the work whenever you can and seizing opportunities whenever they arise. (The Rio Olympic Games are … Continue reading
Broken routines
The way I figure it, a writer should always be learning. Not just about what cyanide concentration will kill an adult male of average height and weights, or how nuclear cooling rods are supposed to work, or the economic fallout … Continue reading