Blog – Page 20

09/26/17

Do The Thing You Love… Every Day

Do the thing you love. Connect with the people you love. Put these things at the top of your To Do List every day, color-coded an urgent red or sunny yellow or peaceful sea-green. This is what life is made of, and it’s more important than any “urgent” thing on your list. A day when you can’t spend an hour… Read More

09/24/17

Tidbits from the Emotional Craft of Fiction Workshop

Emotional Craft of Fiction – book and workshop (you can attend the next one in Irvine, CA in Jan 2018!) My back going out on me kept me from one day of the three in this workshop, but the other two were attended propped up in a wheelchair among friends and relatively pain-free with the help of modern medicine. Not… Read More

09/18/17

No STRESS, just FOCUS

This is my new motto. Also, read this: CLICK HERE TO GET IT “The signs of mental fatigue, such as a drop in effectiveness and a rise in distractedness and irritability, signify that the mental effort needed to sustain focus has depleted the glucose that feeds neural energy….The antidote to attention fatigue is the same as for the physical kind:… Read More

09/06/17

Pennames, and When to Use Them

“I didn’t know how you were going to pull this off, but damn if you didn’t do it!” —fan mail from my romance Penname. She’s talking about Penname’s sprawling 9 book series and how, in book 7, she’s even more invested than before in the characters. When I started the grand experiment of writing under Penname, I expected money (maybe)… Read More

09/06/17

RESIST

Artists are under no obligation to self-censor. Neither are they obligated to share their thoughts on, well, anything. For some artists, their personal lives do not allow public disclosure on the politics of the day or injustice. Journalists are jailed in China for writing articles criticizing the government, so artists tend to let their works speak for themselves (or risk… Read More

09/05/17

Donald Trump’s Attack on Dreamers

800,000 young people. Dreamers. And Trump wants to deport them. The hurricanes are horrible, but at least I can blame the displacement of 30,000 people in Texas on natural forces beyond our control. Our Hurricane in Chief is a man-made destructive force we are entirely responsible for as a nation. #Resist “United States is the only home they’ve ever known…. Read More