I am not the first person to say this, and I won’t be the last. And, you won’t be the first person to ignore this stellar advice, nor the last. But ignore it at your own peril, because it is the key to happiness, to writing success, to world peace, um….maybe even to natural disasters. […]
Reading as a Writer Last night Terry Price and I hosted a dinner for the new students entering the Loft, and, big surprise, the conversation was all about writing. One of the things that Terry talked about was how, in the past, some of his students would complain that they didn’t have time to read, […]
I’m in Nashville, which is beautiful and warm (although pretty much anything is probably warm compared to Portland) and would be perfect in every way except for….the pollen. Which has me sneezing and my eyes running and itching in a way I’ve never quite experienced before. It still does not affect my love for this […]
I am in beautiful Springfield, Tennessee, where there are rolling green fields and the air feels totally different than it does in beautiful Portland, Oregon–mostly because it is warm. I’m staying at the home of Terry Price, and we are theoretically working on the Loft. No, we are really working on it–we have been chatting […]
Welcome to a new series on creativity and how to unleash it in your writing. Today I’ll be presenting the 15 crucial keys to consistently accessing your creativity. First, though, I want to talk about creativity in general. I consider it to be one branch of the Three-Fold Writer’s Path, and in many ways, it […]
It’s Earth Day and I’m in an airplane winging my way across the country, wasting resources, specifically, very expensive jet fuel. Guess they haven’t yet figured out how to make airplanes run on bio-diesel. I’d buy carbon offsets but I just read that they are pretty much b.s. Anyway, having written a long ebook on […]
Clearing things off my plate, or more to the point, my ongoing list of blogging topics today: 1. Last month’s Atlantic had a great article on the paparazzi and how they are changing journalism. I’ve mentioned several times on this site that I have a perverse fascination with the paparazzi, even going so far as […]
This is going to be a bit of an American Idol-ish post, as in, I’m going to imitate the annoying Ryan Seacrest and keep you guessing until the very end who won. As a brief aside, writing that line reminded me of something. I just heard one of the all-time best Crosby, Stills & Nash […]
Yesterday I finished the final corrections on my most recent ghost-written book, which, I have to say, turned out to be a wonderful project, working with great people who communicated clearly and paid quickly. Best of all, they have more books they want me to write! While writing a bio for the Loft today I […]
In my ongoing attempts to takeover secure a spot for myself in the writing corner of the internet, I’ve been researching keywords. This fun little endeavor is part of my effort to find out what y’all want when it comes to writing and writing coaching. (Brief, but very important aside: Tomorrow is the LAST […]
