This is part of an ongoing series called Blinders where I explore some of the ways I streamline my computer workflows to minimize distractions. My digital life took a turn for the better this week. Here’s a peek: Nothing special? Look pretty boring? Exactly. I was able to put the final piece in place toward [...]
From the monthly archives:
October 2008
I’m posting my reflections earlier this week because some of this material has been sticking with me a lot. To mix it up, allow me to offer a few quotes from the chapter that captured, and troubled, me: The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to [...]
Stretch your fingers and prod your imagination — NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writers Month) commences at the end of this week. For the would be novelists out there, I thought it might be helpful to offer a comparison of Scrivener and StoryMill. (Update: you also might be interested in a more recent post where I compare [...]
Only four more weeks in The Artist’s Way Collective! Today we being week 9 focusing on Recovering a Sense of Compassion. Please share your thoughts in the comments below. (If you aren’t participating, feel free to share your reactions too.) If you are using your blog to process your experiences, please leave us a link.
This week has been filled with one of life’s creative blockades — half of our family has been sick. So, I don’t have time to offer a reflection. But for the sake of consistency, here are a few quotes from the chapter I found helpful: “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” – Albert Einstein (pg [...]
As the weather turns cooler and people hunker down for the winter, I guess their energies are refocused into some creative pursuits. There are two shared creative projects coming up in November. Are you considering doing either of these? NaNoWriMo – November is National Novel Writing Month. The goal is to write a 50,000 word [...]
Could it be possible that The Artist’s Way Collective is starting to draw near to the home stretch? Today we being week 8 focusing on Recovering a Sense of Strength. Please share your thoughts in the comments below. (If you aren’t participating, feel free to share your reactions too.) If you are using your blog [...]
There is an Apple store about five minutes from my house. I don’t end up there as often as I expected I might, but it’s been very convenient for times when they, oh…say, totally redesign their laptops and I want to see them in person. Yesterday, I swung by the Apple Store on my way [...]
I’m working on my memoir. Let me be clear…I have no grand ideas about publishing my life’s reflections. I’d much rather encode my soul in fiction rather than bare it for the likes of you. (No, not you…I mean that other person who is reading this right now.) As a writing and growth exercise, I’ve [...]
