Mental Breakfast: Why Writers Need A Morning Routine
Looking for a way to increase productivity? Check out my morning routine ideas and how they make me a better, more focused writer.
Looking for a way to increase productivity? Check out my morning routine ideas and how they make me a better, more focused writer.
I reminder that, in the darkest times hope, and art, matter
Every business needs a name. Why Century Plant? Because it symbolizes perfectly me, a late bloomer.
It’ a Tuesday morning in Colorado. The sun it out, though snow is on the way. It’s February, so that’s nothing new. A pre-snow day and I’m having a lazy one. Not a good idea when I have an article and a blog post due, but I can’t seem to …
The best metaphor I ever heard to describe writing, well, anything from blog posts to novel goes: writing is walking across Australia. You have the start with all the inspiration and hope (along with beaches and Guinness if you play it right). At the end, you achieved your desired goal; …
A room of ones own, the simple desire of writers, all artists really. A place where creativity and hard work come together to realize a novel, painting or song. The room, that mythical writing place and space, has, as so much has, altered in the twenty-first century. Once it involved …
Any book can be read and enjoyed once. Most books we read fall into this category, no shade implied. The author wrote a story that kept their reader engaged until the end, a mighty feat. Some books, though, have a different effect. Some books pull at you, invade your thought …
Mina and Karen. Chip and Joanna, Ben and Erin. All duos known and loved by watchers of HGTV, including me. I always say I don’t watch reality TV, but I tell a fib. What I don’t watch are the ones that feel a bit too much like a game show …
It’s around March of 2017 and Donald Trump is President and a company I never heard about, Cambridge Analytics, is in the news. If you don’t know the story, here’s and article, and movie Brexit starting Benedict Cumberbatch showing its influence in the UK. What I remember about that time was …
Frames. What do you think of when I say the word. Maybe the fancy ones surrounding great art on the walls of museums. Maybe a single image in a strip of film. In terms a blog thought, it does not seem applicable. I disagree and have given it one. A …