Andrew Gallix wrote a post on his Guardian blog about a movement he (sorta jokingly) invented called the Slow Writing Movement. He wrote a thought-provoking post about it yesterday, making the point that with the advent of the word processor, writing has become faster, and with the Internet, publishing is fast, too. "As a result, […]
Happy Fourth of July. It strikes me as amusing that this is one holiday we often refer to by date, as in have a good Fourth. Rarely do we refer to it as Independence Day. Think about it–we don’t say Happy Twenty-Fifth for Christmas. Odd. Updates: Joe Bare sent me a link to a […]
One of the main ways I make my living is through ghostwriting, and I love it. I get to write about topics I’d never write about otherwise, meet fascinating people, and enter the minds of those fascinating people. Sort of like writing fiction, only not. What is Ghostwriting? Ghostwriting is when I write the book […]
Went to a party on the Venice canals on Saturday night. It was a large party, with multiple bands playing sequentially, the grill going full time with hot dogs and hamburgers, and a great potluck spread. We were there as the guests of film director and producer Lina Shanklin, even though she never made it […]
Over on one of my webpages, I wrote about the Columbia Gorge (in connection with writing) and illustrated it with photos of waterfalls in the area. Take a look at this gorgeous photo. It is from my friend Suzanne Peters, who is, clearly, and awesome photographer. She told me she had lots of photos of […]
The task of a novelist is to tell a story so riveting that it will hold a reader’s attention for hundreds of pages. To do this, the author must first know the story intimately herself—which is the reason we write rough drafts (also known as “discovery drafts” or, my favorite, from the beloved Anne Lamott, […]
We went to the Ewomen networking lunch in Orange County yesterday. I’m usually not a huge fan of networking events, as they can so often take on the air of desperation. But I know they are a fact of life in business these days and so when I’m in LA, I usually allow Mary-Suzanne to […]
When it comes to writing, LA is a different world. Actually, when it comes to everything, LA is a different world. But that is a topic for another time. The LA writing world revolves around screenplays (duh). If, as a writer, you are not writing a screenplay, pitching one, writing a treatment, or sleeping with […]
I found an interesting site which features two writing DVDs. The site is for Elephant Rock Productions, and they produce DVDs for writers and the educational market, though I must say that all I saw evidence of was DVDs for writers. However, that evidence looked pretty good. There’s one called, So, Is it Done? which […]
One of the things I have to remind myself over and over and over again about writing is: process not product. If I focus on the process of writing a piece, allow myself to be fully engaged in it and the moment and enjoy just writing, the words flow. They may not be perfect words–as […]
