This post is #30 in a series of 50 dedicated to the art and life of writing, in support of the 50 for 50 Project to benefit WriteGirl. If you like it, or if you think it could have been improved by a better writing education for its author, please give generously. And pass it on. The same grandparents [...]
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Never let perfectionism get in the way of getting started. Never let sucking get in the way of shipping.
It takes over when you want something, like a sleeper Cylon switch tripped on some remote mother ship: one day you’re sitting on the couch eating Fritos watching the Wheel; the next you’re an unstoppable force in a series of headlong collisions with a never-ending stream of immovable objects. God help you. You can of [...]
I am not one known for my godliness. Church makes me itch, I’ve been a doubter from way back before I knew there were such things, and, while I’ve been exposed to big, honking chunks of it thanks to eight years of Catholic school, I’ve never read the Bible all the way through. Those “begats,” [...]
I took a quick trip up north and my friend Brad Nack took an equivalent trip down south and we met in the middle, at delicious Papa Lennon’s in Meiner’s Oaks, where I took possession of FOUR, count ‘em, FOUR, of the 2009 reindeer he painted for his 100% Reindeer Art Show. It was fascinating [...]
Referral Friday is an ongoing series inspired by John Jantsch’s Make-a-Referral Week. For more about that, and loads more referrals for everything from cobblers to coaches to gee-tar teachers, start here. Pass it on, baby! I’d dipped into the work and writing of artist John T. Unger years ago, when I first started blogging. An [...]
Referral Friday is an ongoing series inspired by John Jantsch’s Make-a-Referral Week. For more about that, and loads more referrals for everything from cobblers to coaches to gee-tar teachers, start here. Pass it on, baby! Nowhere are my whack-job Virgo tendencies on better display, metaphorically and literally, as you can see by the photo, above, [...]
Referral Friday is an ongoing series inspired by John Jantsch’s Make-a-Referral Week. For more about that, and loads more referrals for everything from cobblers to coaches to gee-tar teachers, start here. Pass it on, baby! I think if you are a writer, especially one who wants to sell books, you should consume as many books [...]
I’m perpetually about five steps behind the smart kids like Merlin and Julien, so I’m just now reading Twyla Tharp’s absolutely outstanding, OUTSTANDING, I tell you, book, The Creative Habit.* (Julien, if you’re reading this, you were 100% right, and I owe you a beer. Or something.) Since Merlin first started talking about the book [...]
Back when I was a young pup Shilling for the Man, I wrote a lot of ads for a certain mass-market sports beverage. As in, a lot of ads. Because while those of you who haven’t had the pleasure of working in the salt mines of advertising might not know it, the ratio of ads-come-up-with [...]
