Well, to be more accurate, I finally paid attention to the incessant knocks, pings, and scratchings coming from the inside…
Brion Humphrey
Throughout the course of this podcast, Dave and I have been like a couple of escaped mental patients, stalking…
I’m currently 63,000 words into my second novel attempt. Sounds fairly impressive, but I’ve been at 63,000 words for the last six weeks. Sure, I’ve written two short stories, a couple blog entries, participated in recording ten-or-so Roundtable episodes(my favorite distraction besides my wife), taught, graded papers and lesson-planned for about 60 hours a week, etc., etc., and on, and on. A lot like you! But is all of that really keeping me from writing my book? Yes. Because I let it.
We all are experts at wasting time, and the successful few have learned to at least minimize the bastard! We’ve all heard and read countless papers and pamphlets and programs on how to beat down the maniacal villain known as Master Procrastination. That is not what this post is going to do.
“We want to believe the best of who we are, and ignore and deny the worst. The most intriguing moment…
-More than one of them cried out in pain, “This is impossible, my brain hurts!”- Write what you know….
“…though we often soliloquize about writing being a solitary existence with coveted ideas held closer to the chest than Bluebeard’s…