Priorities

Saturday, 24 April 2010, 15:23 | Category : Creativity, Productivity
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Priorities are an odd thing. When I was a kid, I was frequently told to remember my priorities. Thing was, they weren’t my priorities. They were things that I had to do, like homework. But I did listen to that advice, just not in the way my parents wanted me to. My top priority when [...]

Flailing Around

Saturday, 10 April 2010, 10:06 | Category : Creativity, Writing
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I’m in a bit of a rut. Or maybe it’s a plateau. Whatever it is, I’m stuck in place, spinning my wheels and not producing much of anything.
I’m stuck on some aspect of four different stories. I’m overwhelmed by the revising I need to do on Sword and Knife so I thought, ok, I’ll [...]

Back from Vacation

Thursday, 25 March 2010, 17:00 | Category : Creativity, Productivity, Writing
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So I took a two-week vacation from writing. I didn’t really do it on purpose, though I should have. I should know by now that when I push myself too hard to establish a routine, I start feeling like I have to write whether I like it or not, and that’s just death to desire. [...]

Learning is the Goal

Thursday, 1 January 2009, 18:22 | Category : Creativity, Writing
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If I still have any readers left from last year, um, sorry.  I realized during NaNoWriMo last year that blogging was getting in the way of the writing I really wanted to be doing.  I’ve learned that no matter how much I think I should do something, if I’m not actually committed it just drifts [...]

Passive Creativity and the Power of Story

Wednesday, 16 January 2008, 11:46 | Category : Creativity, Writing
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I apologize for not posting in over a week. But I really haven’t done much but read. I’ve been drowning in the vast, complex, compelling Kushiel’s Legacy series by Jacqueline Carey, so I’ve not been sleeping or eating much, let alone blogging.
When I was a kid, I spent three or four hours a [...]