The Writer’s Coin

Writing a story is like flying a hot-air balloon: getting off the ground is a lot of work, but once you’re off it can be really cool and exhilarating. The ride is a lot of fun and you get to see some cool things from a different perspective. But —like writing stories — landing is [...]

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Here are a couple articles that bring up an interesting way of generating ideas.
They both come down to the same thing: for every idea you’re ultimately trying to come up with, create a list that is 100 concepts long.
So you want to create a hip Netflix ad? Come up with 100 and then go back [...]

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“If you want to be a good writer you have to do two things—read a lot and write a lot.”
—Stephen King, On Writing
That’s great advice from one of the most successful writers of our time. The idea is that, the more stuff you read [...]

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It’s fairly easy to stay within your budget after you’ve figured out where your money goes, how much you have to spend, and where you can cut back. Getting into a routine makes it simple: I’ll do this on Monday, that on Tuesday, and this for the rest of the days, spending X amount on [...]

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How is it done? Blasted if I know (I’ve been watching English/Australian ads so pardon the accent writing), I don’t work at an agency. Not yet, anyway.
But as I’ve been working on the idea part of my portfolio (the actual graphics of it are another story), I’ve discovered a few things that I now go [...]

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This past weekend I went to see this play called The Sparrow.
It was awful but I had an incredible time.
Huh?
It had been a while since I had seen a play or even gone to the movie theater and I had forgotten the buzz I get by being immersed in such a creative environment. I was [...]

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