

Read moreWho wants to become a writer?
—Enid Bagnold
And why?
Because it’s the answer
to everything. . . .
It’s the streaming reason for living.
To note, to pin down, to build up,
to create, to be astonished at nothing,
to cherish the oddities,
to let nothing go down the drain,
to make something,
to make a great flower out of life,
even if it’s a cactus.
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...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
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 and Turning Pro—which I have...Read moreWhen I sit down to write a book,
I do not say to myself,
“I am going to produce
a work of art.” I write it
because there is some
lie that I want to expose,
some fact to which
I want to draw attention,
and my initial concern
is to get a hearing.—George Orwell
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