Yoga and writing practice They say that the issues are in our tissues. As I writer, I’ve found that holds true for all the mental time and energy put into writing a novel. You get up early, work on it for three hours if you’re able to make the time on a weekend day. …
The value of human interaction Over the past weekend, I attended via the cloud, the 2024 THE ALLIANCE OF INDEPENDENT AUTHORS Publishing for Profit’ Self-Publishing Advice Conference. I could only attend a couple sessions. One that I felt I had to sit in one was Penny Sansevieri’s presentation on Selling books without Social Media. Social …
H.B “”So are you here for work?” Howard Behar asked me. We had stepped outside to sit down at his table of choice. ‘For the week.” I responded with my trademark caution. I had not worked for Starbucks since 1994. I did run one of the first Barnes & Noble Starbucks …
“One reason I write so slowly is I try to make each joke work.” …
Writing books Would you buy a book from the guy behind that table? I hope not. I wouldn’t, even if it were me. But it was me at a Half-Priced Books south of Indy back when my first novel Tripio had been published early spring 2019. Yuck. I look at that photo now …
“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 lost place In order to finish the first version of the second book of my Trier series I had to start the third. There’s a lot going on in that one short sentence, not the least of which is that it sounds like the start of a word problem from high school …
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 …
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