“Self-conscious” means to have undue awareness of one’s self, one’s appearance, or one’s actions. I remember the day self-consciousness replaced self-confidence. In 4th grade I was a rough and …
Novel Notes: Creating a Scene Plan
5 scenes in I can already tell a spreadsheet scene plan is going to be a powerful tool for me to use. I think I got the idea from Novel Writing for Dummies, though I'm not positive; I've got several …
What Flannery accomplished in 2 hours a day, most of us won’t do in a lifetime.
“I’m a full-time believer in writing habits…You may be able to do without them if you have genius but most of us only have talent and this is simply something that has to be assisted all the time by …
Dreams as Plot Lines
I discovered something interesting about writing as a practice this week. First, my disciplined habit: It's my practice to get up early, usually around 5 or 5:30, in order to write in a quiet …
12 Reasons Why I Am Not Leaving Facebook in 2014
The word on the street is that there's an exodus taking place: people are leaving Facebook in droves. The buzz about teens leaving has been around for awhile- Mashable even did this nifty statistic …
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What Happens When You Unplug? Using Technology-Free Time to Make Smart Decisions
I'll start with the scary part. Last year, about 13 months ago, I thought I was having a heart attack. At 38. I was driving out of the Target parking lot in the afternoon. I was also talking on the …