I love to read and when I find myself in a creative rut, I usually reach for one of these books to help get me out of it. A Moveable Feast You get to enjoy Hemingway’s legendary sparse writing as he looks back to his days as a young, happy man in Paris. He goes [...]
Monthly Archive for November, 2009
How Adam Baker and Gary Vaynerchuk Put me in a Rut
Posted in Happiness on Nov 9th, 2009
I haven’t been posting very consistently over the past few weeks. Or very much, for that matter. I have a good reason though: it’s Gary Vaynerchuk (of WineLibrary TV) and Adam Baker’s (of Man vs. Debt) fault. You see, a month ago I read Adam’s fantastic post on how not to suck at blogging. In [...]
3 Ways Viktor Frankl Inspired Me to Deal With Adversity
Posted in Good Reads, Happiness on Nov 4th, 2009
Everyone, at one point or another, goes through difficult times in their life. Viktor Frankl was born in Austria in 1905, spent three years in a Nazi concentration camp, and eventually founded logotherapy. He led an incredible life, and I would never have heard of him if it wasn’t for his book, A Man’s Search [...]
You Don’t Know What You’re Capable of Until You Try
Posted in Writing on Nov 3rd, 2009
For whatever reason, I always had it in my head that writing a short story required all this thinking, preparation, and process that meant it would take a week or two to churn one out. This despite the fact that the only story I ever got paid for (it won an award) was written in [...]
