The Writer’s Coin

Check out some great posts over at the Money Hacks Carnival, hosted by Save and Conquer. My post, Going to the Game is Expensive, was chosen for the Economy section of the carnival.
I’m also over at the Carnival of Twenty Something Finances hosted by The Locomono Website. My story for that one is about getting […]

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Earlier this week I wrote about a writing formula I discovered that works for me and I think can help other writers, as well as any creative types. Well, today I went out for a run and had an epiphany: there was more to say about the formula.
Reading + “Quiet Time” = Creative Writing Ideas
Today […]

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Writing that title made me feel like I was penning the sequel to The Secret or something. Like I was going to write something akin to “Just follow this simple formula and all your writing block problems will be forever solved!”
Which isn’t what I’m saying but I am saying that it’ll definitely help you the […]

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On Monday I admitted to the world that I’m a really nostalgic person and began a brief (or maybe not so brief since this is part 2) look back at how far I’ve come over the past few years. I left off in October 2006 after having worked out every for a month and then […]

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Well, it’s been about a week since my last post and a few things have happened that have kept me from writing. First of all, I got some kind of flu/plague hybrid that kicked my butt and kept me in bed for four days straight. I’m still not recovered but at least right now I […]

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On Monday M and I watched one of her favorite movies: The Notebook. I had seen it with her before but it was a while ago and I went into it with the attitude that I was watching it because she really likes it.
It’s a fantastic movie—the kind that gets you so emotionally worked up […]

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Here’s a good article from a while back that I really like. Here’s what the article is about:
This article is not about how to fake being an expert, so it’s not some quick, easy thing you can do and then be way better at something tomorrow. It’s about actually becoming an expert, which will take […]

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I’ve been freelancing for this one client for a few months now. The deal was one big project at the beginning and some small upkeep on a month-to-month basis. Everything was fine until last month, when that upkeep became more than just minor. I spent five hours working on something that usually took around two.
This […]

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One of my favorite novels of all time is Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides. He also wrote The Virgin Suicides, which I have not read but have been meaning to since I first read Middlesex.
Well today I was running a Google News search for “Foster Wallace,” as I tend to do about twice a week (he’s […]

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This is a notion I picked up in grad school when I was getting my Masters in Writing: For a lot of writers it helps to keep a certain reader in mind as they sit down to write.
Will X like this part? X will think this is funny, right?
It really helps materialize an otherwise ethereal […]

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