What to do when Everything Sucks
Hell if I know. And I suppose it isn’t everything. I mean, it’s never everything, right? Because I’m still breathing.But I’m working on a movie that is sucking the soul right out of me with a few people I cannot wait to be away from. This will be the first wrap party I won’t attend.Alas,…
Get and Stay Motivated!
I tend to vacillate between bursts of creativity and periods of sloth. My goal is to lessen the latter and increase the former. In that vein, here are a few tips to help you get going on whatever project is in front of you:Find a Mantra“We are what repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an…
On Scrapping Most of My First Draft
I was talking with a good friend about how I wouldn’t be using the majority of what I’d written for the first draft of Book 2 and she reminded me of a story about an artist (who’s name escapes me) that would paint an entire tree, even if the final piece would only depict a…
Things are Looking Up
I feel better than I have in a while. I’m not gonna lie–it was touch and go for a little while a few weeks back. I had a change in medication and it threw me for a loop that lasted a couple of weeks. It was at the worst possible time, too, (is there ever…
Media Deprivation
I’ve got one more week until I need to turn my manuscript over for proofreading and have much more to do than I’d hoped, so I am now in a self-imposed exile. No television, web-surfing, or radio. The only exception is for an hour a day when I go for a hike/walk/jog, (whichever I feel…