procrastination
November 24, 2009
- Well, after spending a productive afternoon staring at the poems I have posted on my Moveable Type blog, considering self-publishing some of it, or just working up some nicely illustrated PDFs, I've accomplished nothing but giving myself a headache.What I need to do over the holidays, is to pull down all my poetry, chop the collections back up into individual poems, and re-group! Just put a few ...
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October 30, 2009
- While hacking away selling used-cars, I spent exhausting stretches of time standing in heels in front of showroom windows. I could not sit in my office if I were to capture the next customer on the lot. First one to Mr. Clipboard eats. Sink or swim. After several years, I challenged myself to find a coping mechanism for the ensuing brain atrophy.How could I use this 'dead time' to stimulate my ...
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October 17, 2009
- When I was in university, one of my closest friends asked me if writing fiction couldn’t be a “hobby” instead of something I staked my future and livelihood on. I was adamant that it could not. I had to create or die, dammit! I was born to be a writer! Anything else would be a death of the soul!I wonder about that now. It’s good – and necessary – to be passionately dedicated to your ...
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September 18, 2009
- This New York Times piece is all about the software (some free, some not) that helps those of us who work on computers get back to work…at least theoretically.I wrote a little about WriteRoom in another blog post (this is the handy software that gives you, literally, nothing but a blank page — which, while distraction-free, might cause serious angst, if not terror, for many writers).But I ...
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September 9, 2009
- So we’ve just had a long weekend. If you live in Seattle, like I do, you were kept in for at least a portion of the weekend by wind and rain — great writing weather. If you live in a sunnier climate (or just wanted to enjoy the holiday weekend, like a normal person), you may not have gotten your writing time in.But I have good news about that: Just because you’re not sitting at the computer ...
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September 2, 2009
- I ought to be working, and so... I bring you this blog entry, not on the theme of procrastination (which I believe has already been quite comprehensively covered both by myself and other bloggers), but on writer's foibles and obsessions.As a breed, writers are generally accepted to be a neurotic, eccentric bunch. For one thing, a person has to be a bit screwy to want to spend hours of their time ...
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August 31, 2009
- Until today, Seattle did not, to my knowledge, have a medical center called Bayview Hospital (though I believe there is a similarly named veterinary clinic). However, it does now. I’ve just created it.I’m not a billionaire philanthropist (unfortunately) — I am simply a fiction writer who, in the middle of a scene, realized I needed to put one of my characters in a trauma center. And while ...
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August 27, 2009
- I reconnected with a writer friend recently and asked her (in an e-mail) if she was on Facebook and she said, "I wish I had time for all of that, but I just don't. Blogging sounds like it'd be a good way to push book sales, but I just can't find the time. I have to get this book done." I slid my cursor over the toolbar on the page I was "working on", selected WORD COUNT. ...
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August 8, 2009
- Originally posted on my blog at http://writingandallthat.wordpress.com/2009/08/07/the-modern-writing-day-a-beginners-guide/
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August 2, 2009
- 1. When you have a writing project to do, a thousand distractions suggest themselves. Now you must write the story of the thousand distractions.2. Weeds are flowers that grow too easily.3. The reason most people abhor silence is that it forces them to listen to themselves.
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