If you want to be a writer you have to do the work. You have to put in your time and figure out how to bend the words to your will. You have to tickle, squeeze, beg, slap, anb bother them to change positions and assemble upon command. In between it all you have to [...]
The Day Social Media Died
May 4, 2013 by 11 Comments
I refuse to cater to the instant gratification society. I refuse to agree to only write posts that are 350-500 words long because people might not read them. I refuse to not have fun with headlines. If there is a need to blog about how sex is a cure for writer’s block I am going [...]
Where Can You Buy A Fortress of Mostly Quiet?
April 30, 2013 by 8 Comments
Almost 9 PM and Dylan is singing about The Mighty Quinn while I try to figure out the answers to hard questions. You can tie them into If You Could Do Anything What Would You Do? and When Is Failure An Option-2011 Edition. But you could tie them into a bunch of other things beyond [...]
This Is A Boring Headline
April 21, 2013 by 7 Comments
The experts can excoriate me for not preparing a more exciting headline. The shamans, gurus, ninjas and voodoo docs of the blogosphere can slap me around for letting potential readers run away because I didn’t ask if you are guilty of sloppy writing or if you are undisciplined. Yeah, those were among the prospective winners [...]
Spit Or Swallow Always Means You Have Time To Blog
April 17, 2013 by 10 Comments
I am not interested in hearing that you don’t have time to blog. Life is about priorities and determining how to spend your time. Ask me why my abs don’t look like they did when I was 19 and I’ll tell you it is because of my diet. I could tell you it is because [...]
Writer’s Block Is A Myth
April 14, 2013 by 12 Comments
Some of you aren’t going to like me much because when you tell me you have writer’s block I am going to roll my eyes at you and ask you to fill my head with your top ten excuses. Tell me something I can believe like you fell down the stairs and wound up naked [...]
What Happens When There Are No More Words?
April 1, 2013 by 3 Comments
Five Song Snapshot: Something- The Beatles Head Over Heels- Tears For Fears Come Together- Aerosmith The Time Warp- Rocky Horror Picture Show Gimme Some Lovin- Spencer Davis Group There are very few real nightmares in the world I inhabit. Take a walk through the melon on top of my shoulders and you’ll see your garden [...]
Do People Find You To Be Boring?
March 24, 2013 by 2 Comments
“The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them — words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out. But it’s more than that, isn’t it? The most important things [...]
