Given half a chance, I’ll overthink anything. Take a half hour to pick out a movie? Sure. Spend weeks mulling whether or not I should get a new pair of boots? Yup. Go back and forth about whether or not […]
Category: writing
This Desert Life
No, this isn’t a review of Counting Crows 1999 masterpiece of an album. Although, if you’ll indulge me for a moment, you could do a lot worse in terms of listening material from the late 90’s and I’d argue it’s […]
New Page, Who Dis?
I’ve probably mentioned this before a couple times, but editing is one of my least favorite parts of writing. Right up there with losing my favorite pen or having a pen run out of ink and having to use whatever […]
Don’t Call It A Comeback
As I mentioned before, the screenplay I’d been working on last year had stalled. Nothing really to do with any issues I was having with the story, it was mostly a combo platter of not being sure if I could […]
All Set-Up, No Action
Ideas are worthless. Yeah, I said it. Of course, I’m only one in a long line of people who have said it, so please don’t think any credit is due here. In learning about screenwriting, I found there was two […]
The Routine, Interrupted
One of my goals this year is to have a creative routine that will start my days off, using the “make before you manage” ethos I gleamed from Tim Ferriss and mashing it up with what I remembered from Austin […]
Your Whatever Step System To Having A Something
I have a couple problems with YouTube videos promising a Whatever Step System To Getting The SOMETHING You WANT. First, it’s never quite that simple. There’s usually a ton of truth in the video, but there’s also something that’s left […]
This One’s For Me
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. Cyril Connolly – New Statesman, February 1933 At some point, I stopped submitting poems for publication in magazines and journals. For […]
It’s Not
“Anything’s hard that you’re forcing.” – Markus Redmond I think it can be hard to admit when I’m forcing something – especially when it’s something I want really badly. It’s actually funny how easy it is to continue forcing something, […]
Writing is a Battlefield (Earth)
To err is human, but to really mess things up, try justifying the err and wind up building an entire system of fragile excuses, self-pity, and loathing that lean on each other like a demented house of cards waiting to […]