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A Writer’s Exercise
All artists have exercises to help them with the craft of their art. Painters and sculpters are always sketching. Musicians do scales and are always plinking and plunking and tinkling on something....
View ArticleThe Myth of Rules
I often talk about writer’s myths, things people think of as writing rules that often just get in the way of good writing. Are their any rules for writing that the writer should be aware of? Certainly....
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Can Creative Writing Enhance Other Types of Writing?
Can learning the techniques of fiction and creative writing enhance other types of writing? When we study creative writing, we learn how to structure stories, how to communicate their ideas. We learn...
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The Myth of Talent
I had a life-changing exchange with a teacher, once. We were talking about pursuing our passions, our art. About spending our lives doing something we loved. I stood up in class and asked a question...
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Why Most Advice to Writers Sucks
Many years ago, Steve had a subscription to Writer’s Digest magazine. In almost every issue, there were articles such as: “10 Writing Mistakes to Avoid” “The 5 Top Reasons an Agent Will Reject Your...
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Fictionalizing Stories from Life
If you are writing stories from your life, there are may reasons to fictionalize them, or at least fictionalize elements of them. I’m going to briefly focus on three: For your benefit For the benefit...
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Obsessive Much?
I often talk about the need to get stuff done as opposed to getting it done perfectly. The whole, “do you want it perfect or do you want it on Tuesday” philosophy is an apt one. Besides the notion that...
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Writing Novels
Besides Weeping Willow, the book I wrote with Steve Mancini, I have written three novels (at least one of which should be published this year, a science fiction odyssey called Guardian Mosaic.) I am in...
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Look After Your Gnome
We all have gnomes that follow us around and pop up at the most inopportune time. Some of yours might be named “I’m Just Not Good Enough” or “They Must Know Better Than Me” and “I’m Not Capable”. A...
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Be a Tree
There is an exercise that is often taught in acting classes, and most actors hate it. They not only hate it, they deride it and spend countless years after their initial training parodying it and using...
View ArticleA 30 Day Blog Challenge
I challenge you to write 30 blog posts in the next 30 days. I am taking that challenge myself, for a lot of reasons. The last time I did it (MANY years ago), I massively increased the readership of my...
View ArticleTelling the Truth
I once had a friend whose brother was an old-school salesman. He always said, “when someone asks how it’s going, no matter how it’s going, always say, ‘Great!'” It made perfect sense. I’d known...
View ArticlePost #3
The third post in my 30 day challenge is a humor piece, so I posted it on my personal blog, That Would Be Me (dot net). It’s called “I remember Cheese”. Go have a read HERE. #3 The post Post #3...
View ArticleCreation Myth
Every society has some sort of creation myth, some story that explains how they got there and why they are the way they are. We all know some of them. Many have simply become stories we tell each...
View ArticleWriting About Writing
As a writer, I do a lot of writing about the process of writing. I have kind of an odd relationship to that. It’s sort of like a movie maker who makes movies about movie makers making movies. There’s...
View ArticleIn the Grand Scheme of Things
There is a line in the play Dylan, about the Welsh poet, playwright and professional bad boy, Dylan Thomas. The line comes at the end. His wife is standing over his coffin and shouts, “You’ll come off...
View ArticleThe Naked Truth
Today’s post is a bit of a philosophical mind game. It is about how the absolute truth if often not quite as absolute as we imagine. I didn’t come up with the analogy, and I’m not sure who did, so I...
View ArticleLike a Star
I live in Los Angeles, so I know a lot of actors, who know a lot of casting directors who know even more actors. I’ve been in shows and workshops with some famous and semi-famous people and am only...
View ArticleWhy You Don’t Write
Writers find any excuse not to write. It seems to be bred into us. We feel the dark romance of the tortured soul, which includes, “I just can’t write!” Here is a (completely random and incomplete) list...
View ArticleGo Take a Nap
When I was quite young, I lived with my grandparents at their inn in rural northern New Jersey. Grandpa was the personality behind the establishment, but Grandma was definitely the brains and often the...
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