Rick Killian
Lessons from a ghost . . .Read moreI would stand and
look out over
the roofs of Paris
and think, “Do not worry.
You have always written
before and
you will write now.
All you have to do is write
one true sentence.
Write the truest sentence
that you know.”—Ernest Hemingway
A Moveable Feast
Read moreStorytelling is
the most powerful
way to put ideas
into the world today.
Stories are the creative
conversion of life itself
into a more powerful,
clearer,
more meaningful experience.
They are the currency
of human contact.—Robert McKee
An American, in Sri Lanka, Tries to Explain Cricket to Other Americans
It all begins with the wicket. Three posts (actually called “stumps” or “stakes”), twenty-eight inches high and an inch and a quarter in diameter, st…
Read moreDon’t wait for the muse. . . .
Your job is to make sure the muse
knows where you’re going to be every day
from nine ’til noon. or seven ’til three.
If she does know,
I assure you that sooner or later
she’ll start showing up.
—Stephen King,
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
The Danger of a Single Story
This is a fantastic talk and a great reason why more of us need to tell our stories. Listen and let me know what you think.
Read moreYou can only become truly accomplished
at something you love.
Don’t make money your goal.
Instead pursue the things you love doing
and then do them so well that
people can’t take their eyes off of you.―Maya Angelou
Steven Pressfield on The Foolscap Method of Story Outlining
https://vimeo.com/70767223#t=13s If you don't know Steven Pressfield, let me introduce him to you through this video. While he talks about his book, The Legend of Bagger Vance here, the first book I read by him was The War of Art (and its two companions: Do the Work...
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