Wanted to keep toying with alternative tools for creation. I write directly in the Rocketbook and, using its iOS app, simultaneously photograph and send the image to Google Drive. I added the annotations on the computer.
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Tag Archives: writing advice
Writers Horoscope December 29: Tethered to your work?
If not, latch on to another tidbit from Joel at LifeHack…
If you’re not on a tight deadline, walk away
and do something completely unrelated.
Like biscotti, for instance.
First of all, more than a few of us are never on a tight deadline. [A common obstacle to productivity, by the way.]
So, when inspiration from pen and keyboard is lacking, well, what is more unrelated than Nonna’s Biscotti?
As I shared with a friend tonight: Writing just doesn’t feed the soul like mixing sugar, flour, and eggs and seeing something concrete [and tasty] emerge, as opposed to something abstract and lifeless [my writing].
Note: My wife’s eyes lit up when I suggested that there was no reason half of these raisin-walnut cookies couldn’t be dipped in chocolate.
Another note: I don’t use almond extract. To put it bluntly, yick. Just seems too fake. I’d just as soon add extra vanilla. Or, as the recipe includes, brandy.
Writers Horoscope December 28: You assume a new identity.
Author as spy.
Are you the type?
Interesting read from The Economist’s Prospero blog.
Some takeaways:
“In a sense, all writers function like spies—observing the people around them, studying character types, becoming flies-on-the-wall for the purpose of their art.”
“Writing is a means of decoding experience, of piercing through the surface of things to get at the truths beneath. Hemingway, in particular, was obsessed with the idea of concealment—so much so that he embedded it in his very style of writing.”
Here are a few other noted authors who crossed over from spydom.
And for the time being, keep your eyes and ears open.
Writers Horoscope December 27: Voices from the past beckon…
Voices of the experienced, however.
A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work
will die without putting a word on paper.”
E.B. White
On this December 27…
So what if you’re feeling like an overstuffed recliner?
Or you’re too bloated to escape your overstuffed recliner?
Reach for the nearest writing implement [finger dipped in cranberry sauce?] and writing surface [one of the recliner arms?] and compose!
And if you’re desperate for material [and you opt for mobility], consider ‘authorial espionage’. [Dec. 28]
By Cornell University senior photograph. Uploaded by w:user:cornell2010. [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Writers Horoscope December 26: Moderation rules…
Seth Godin offers his succinct, yet logical counsel for creatives.
Writers Horoscope December 1: Your mind is a jumble.
Even when you have momentum and direction and focus, it’s easy to drift into a quagmire of your writing life’s ins and outs and ups and downs. [Four prepositions ought to be enough.]
The challenge is to rebound and play to your strengths.
Word Inventions 