Your Actual Creativity is the Ultimate On-Demand Entertainment

I will not Reason & Compare, my business is to Create! William Blake Better than on-demand entertainment is on-demand creativity. Your creativity. For yourself. Your friends. Your 1000 true fans. Creativity on demand Creativity on demand means that whenever you sit down to write, it feels true to you in the moment. Whenvever you want… Continue reading Your Actual Creativity is the Ultimate On-Demand Entertainment

Learn Story Structure By Reading the Synopsis

How to reverse engineer story structure by studying the blurbs and short summaries of stories you already know Maybe it’s true that reverse engineering is my favorite kind of engineering. If that is true, I wonder what that says about me? One thing I have been doing lately is digging to read the synopsis of… Continue reading Learn Story Structure By Reading the Synopsis

How to Crack the Hard Chocolaty Coating of the Writing Doldrums

We all face ups and downs. It’s inevitable. Sometimes we are riding high on the wave of inspiration, and sometimes we feel weighed down by our own sludgy ideas and lousy writing. I’ve been there. Over the years, I have tried all sorts of things: writing in the evenings, writing in the mornings, more coffee,… Continue reading How to Crack the Hard Chocolaty Coating of the Writing Doldrums

Use Freewriting To Accomplish Impossible Goals

I like to set impossible goals and impossible expectations. Partly because it’s inspiring to achieve what was previously believed to be impossible. Huge goals are impressive. The shadow side of this tendency is to set impossible expectations because it leads to a kind of failure that supports my negative beliefs. It goes like this: I… Continue reading Use Freewriting To Accomplish Impossible Goals