Tag: writing
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Day 458 of 1000: Inspiration, Perspiration, and Desperation
In his writing guide and memoir Plot Twist, author Harlan Coben says that a writer needs inspiration, perspiration, and a desperation to create.
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Day 448 of 1000: Settling Down into the Muck of My Mind
Allan Ginsberg recommends writing secretly so you can be free to say anything you want. On painting and writing in private.
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Day 445 of 1000: The Desire to Consume vs the Desire to Share
Consumer goods don’t satisfy, where gifts can, says Lewis Hyde in The Gift.
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Day 434 of 1000: Achievement Minimalism
Seeking contentment with the life I have rather than continuing to pursue more social contacts, more money, more external validation.
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Day 408 of 1000: D.H. Lawrence’s Writing Style
I’m enjoying reading Lady Chatterley’s Lover, and appreciate Lawrence’s poetic, repetitive style. But his style is not favored by all critics.
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Day 394 of 1000: The LImits of Explanation
I’m trying to explain using explanations why storytelling is better. Maybe I need to just tell stories.
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Day 393 of 1000: The Narrative Laziness of Addiction Memoirs
Elizabeth Gilbert’s All the Way to the River treads familiar, and tedious, ground.
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Day 359 of 1000: Two Things A Novel Can Do that Nonfiction Cannot
A novel presents life incarnate not just abstracted, and it gets at complicated many layered themes in roundabout inefficient ways. The Bell as an example.
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Day 324 of 1000: AI Disillusionment Amid Ongoing AI Equity Euphoria
On Twitter, commentators are questioning the fitness of AI for writing and agentic tasks. Meanwhile AI stocks continue to soar.
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DAy 296 of 1000: Writing about Investing
I’m early in my journey of figuring out who I am as a trader. It’s so idiosyncratic and personal that I don’t want to write about it.
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Day 248 of 1000: How Iris Murdoch Introduces a Main Character
Sharing a passage from Iris Murdoch’s novel A Word Child, in which she introduces the main character not with description but with sensory detail.
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Day 245 of 1000: Planning for Valentine’s Day Week
Plans for the week including Valentine’s Day dinner, writing about investing, working on Mechanism paintings, dancing through life.
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Day 198 of 1000: Writing for Artificial intelligences
Thinking about how I might turn my writing upside down and write for artificial intelligence, as a way of writing for people.
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Day 165 of 1000: A 12-minute writing session for bypassing resistance
Breaking through my book writing resistance using a technique proposed by ChatGPT.
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Day 149 of 1000: When book writing goes slowly
I’ve been writing my memoir for over ten years and I’m now turning it into nonfiction. How to accept when writing a book goes very slowly.
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Day 138 of 1000: Keeping my own writing voice in an age of artificial intelligence
How I’m ensuring I don’t lose my human writing voice as I use artificial intelligence to help with my writing.
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Day 130 of 1000: Developing a business model not a hobby
In This Is Strategy, Seth Godin advises against trying to turn a hobby into a business. My writing hobby vs my writing business.
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Day 128 of 1000: A redraft vs a rewrite
Redrafting a book manuscript versus rewriting it. Writing a book in three drafts. More advice from Dean Wesley Smith, and also Robert A. Heinlein.
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Day 124 of 1000: Copywork in writing
Copying another writer’s work verbatim can be a useful form of writing practice. How to do it and why.
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Day 121 of 1000: finally making fast progress on my book
Now that I’ve developed a good structure for my book, I’m making fast progress on the first draft.
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Day 120 of 1000: Thinking a book into existence
Writing a book is difficult, says creativity coach Eric Maisel, because thinking is hard work. “A book is a bit of newly minted meaning.”
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Day 116 of 1000: Romantic imagination in a consumer society
In the modern society, daters look for romantic fantasy using rational, scientific means. Implications for my book project.
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Day 114 of 1000: Creating writing momentum
This week, I’m going to work on my book manuscript. I’m going to write it with flow, drive, and in my own voice.
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Day 112: Looking for writing momentum
How to find writing momentum and flow in moving forward with creating my book manuscript.
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Day 108 of 1000: On a writing journey
Reflections on the Six of Swords Tarot card, and how I feel I am setting out on a journey with my book pivot.
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Day 94 of 1000: Experiencing the Other in Relationship
Last week, I underwent a major shift in my perspective on my life. This week, I hope to make some more sense of it, with philosophical study.
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Day 83 of 1000: Murakami on originality
Notes on originality from Haruki Murakami’s essay collection Novelist as Vocation. Originality comes from freedom, eliminating the extraneous, and creating from joy.
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Day 69 of 1000: conscious vs unconscious desires in memoir
Thinking about how to show both my conscious and unconscious desires in my memoir-in-progress Things Men Gave Me.
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Day 50 of 1000: Navigating change in relationships
How I changed over the course of the relationships I’m writing about in my Things Men Gave Me essay-and-painting project. The false goal I was after.
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Day 37 of 1000: Writing The story of my ring
Working on my writing, both recording present day events and writing a narrative essay about a ring I received as a gift ten years ago.
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Day 30 of 1000: Small habit changes
A small change to my morning routine is resulting in a big impact on my writing productivity and engagement.
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Day 28 of 1000: Writing with vulnerability and following intuition
Following intuition and writing with vulnerability work together to produce powerful authentic work. Why am I so reluctant to do that?
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Dream painting
about an early abstract painting of mine