“Do you get sidetracked when external things intrude? Free yourself from them, in favor of learning something new and worthwhile, and stop your purposeless wondering.” -Meditations
“Do you get sidetracked when external things intrude? Free yourself from them, in favor of learning something new and worthwhile, and stop your purposeless wondering.” -Meditations
“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” The word decide …
“Why don’t you write about meadows or something?” Asked the Headmaster, played by Stephen Fry. “I‘ve never seen a meadow,” Replies the student, played by Hugh Laurie. “What do you think the imagination is for?” Responds the Headmaster. What do you think the imagination is for? I was reading a post on …
The goal is to commit to a structure that can take on a life of its own, instead of creating only when the mood strikes. – Rick Rubin, music industry superstar. I am a system. – James Harden, NBA superstar. A structure I am not sure if there are a lot of similarities shared by Rick …
“There were none of those thousand sources of irritation that the ingenuity of civilized man has created to mar his own felicity.” Herman Melville from Typee
Happy Everyone now and then I think about revising my first novel, Tripio. I’m guessing that I am not alone in this, especially on one’s first novel. When I actually voiced this over a phone call to my book producer, who I worked with on the Trier, his response was that a lot of …
The Trier Tour’24 Gets Underway This Weekend
Don’t call me that Oscar Wilde once said that some things are too important to be taken seriously. That captures how I go about writing. And to prove it, as I write this post I’m thinking about Monty Python’s Oscar Wilde sketch, and not any of Wilde’s plays, novels, and further wisdoms. And …
The object isn’t to make art, it’s to be in that wonderful state that makes art inevitable. Finding my voice This morning I am reviewing my 5th Chakra. You heard me right. It is snowing and cold. I just wrote in …
Writing practice I spent several hours yesterday morning actually writing. Sitting on my chair at my laptop grinding away on some plot points on my follow up to The Trier. For the record the working title is The Trier goes to London. It is set in 1675, or thereabouts, because that was the year …
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