Personal Finance, Writing, and Blogging
Posted in Writing on Jul 18th, 2008
It took me a while to come around on the importance of editing. When I first started writing, I thought that all I needed was to “inspire myself” and jot everything down in a flurry of creative energy. Sure, editing was good to catch typos and play with some commas, but otherwise I felt like [...]
Posted in Creativity, Writing on Jul 8th, 2008
Anne Lamott’s book, Bird by Bird, has a great chapter called Shitty First Drafts that’s all about getting over those internal voices that tell writers that what we’re writing sucks. The essay is all about accepting those voices, realizing that they’re going to be there for as long as you’re doing something creative, and then [...]
Posted in Carnivals on Jul 7th, 2008
I’ve talked before of my struggle to find time to both blog and write. Well, today is one of those days I really want to write (fiction) and instead of coming up with some mediocre post I scratched together at the last minute, I’m writing this. It may be a poor stand in for a [...]
Posted in Blogging, Creativity, Tips, Writing on Jun 19th, 2008
This is a duality that I struggle with a lot. Am I a writer? A blogger? Both? So today I’m taking a look at three ways that have helped me (and will hopefully help you) balance the act of writing fiction and blogging.
I write for this blog and I also write fiction. I’d like to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 5th, 2008
Having heard so much about this book (mostly from Trent over at The Simple Dollar), I decided I just had to check it out. Especially since I’ve been feeling low on time and like I’m neglecting my fiction. Plus me and a friend of mine are talking about starting a joint blog, so I need [...]
When I was in grad school getting my MA in Writing, a really cool professor of mine got a published writer (and professor from another school) to come to our workshop for a little Q&A. After reading and talking about all these amateur stories (for the most part), it was nice to have a real [...]
Posted in Motivation, Writing on May 23rd, 2008
Last week I wrote a post about a formula I found that works for me whenever I want to “inspire” myself to write. Well, there was something I left out of the equation that merits being discussed: music.
A couple of things made me realize how stupid it was to not even mention music: one [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Creativity, Writing on May 7th, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Creativity, Writing on May 2nd, 2008
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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