I’m getting closer to publishing my new book on creativity called Meeting the Muse: 28 Ways to Unlock the Pleasures & Avoid the Pitfalls of Your Creative Life. As regular readers know, this book is not about book publishing, it’s about the motives that...
As week 1 of NaNoWriMo draws to a close, authors everywhere are checking their word counts to see if they are keeping up the pace. If you plan to hit 50,000 words by the end of November, you’ll need to crank out about 1,667 words every day. By today (the 8th)...
There’s such a clean slate to the year, looked at from this early January vantage point, that it’s hard to resist making plans, resolutions or other agreements with ourselves about how this year is going to be, well, different. Here’s what I’ve...
I’m not blogging today, so instead I thought I would share with you: 15 Things You Probably Don’t Know About Me (Think of it as an extension of my About page.) I was an Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts. I didn’t own a home until I was 48 years old. I...
Ed: A slightly different version of this review of one of my favorite books on writing appeared earlier this year on World’s Strongest Librarian. If You Want to Write: A Book About Art, Independence and Spirit was originally published in 1938, and revised in a...
