Archive: Creativity category
So, my last post was about how I'm going to write this genealogy app, right? Beyond, as it turns out, is a fairly difficult project.
A couple years ago I discovered David Allen's Getting Things Done philosophy, and wow, it's gold.
When it comes to creativity, I tend to blow to and fro with each new interesting wind that comes my way.
I used to want to do everything. (Except skydiving. I've never really want to do that.) (Oh, or be a doctor.) (Or a lawyer.)
The best thing that ever happened to me as a writer was learning to revise.
A month ago I posted about axing all my side projects. I'm having second thoughts.
Reading Cory Doctorow's "Extreme Geek" article on Locus got me thinking about my own writing tools.
Every time I've tried to start writing a novel (excepting NaNoWriMo in 2007) or full-length play, I'd bail out a couple chapters in, thinking I couldn't fill a whole book or evening with whatever it was I was writing. And I was right.
See, I had an epiphany earlier this ...
I'm a project person. I love projects -- I love coming up with ideas, I love watching them gestate and emerge and grow up, and I love the thrill that comes from knowing I'll always have interesting things to work on. I think that's key: life is too ...
I love Creative Commons. It resonates strongly with me and I'm fully behind it. And now there's a new video by Jesse Dylan (the guy who directed the Yes We Can Obama campaign video) explaining what Creative Commons is and why it's important:...
