As soon as the iPad inspired a slurry of Android clones I’m sure more than a few writers thought, “Now I can write that novel or screenplay in bed, waiting at the doctor office, or yes, even while sitting on the toilet!” But wait! Not so fast. How does the state of the art stack
Why shower crayons work: Routine. It forces us to focus and make decisions, even if it’s only for a few minutes a day. You don’t need hours, days, or weeks to make a decision. Most decisions can take place within a few seconds. Even the most creative thorny problems. You may not find the best
Novelists usually work by a process of drafting. They write straight through to a 1st draft. Then they change the things they don’t like in the 2nd draft, and iterate into a 3rd, etc. Drafting is a linear process. Plotting, also sometimes called ‘blocking,’ is used by script writers to establish economical scene flow.
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Posted by : | On : July 20, 2006
Wired has a neat article on genius by Daniel Pink. It breaks it into two types, conceptualists vs. experimentalists.
Genius is nebulous at best, and an often over-used term. But if I had to choose whether I was a conceptualist thinker or an experimentalist (let’s ignore the genius part), I’d say conceptualist. I don’t think the two types are mutually exclusive however. I play both ways at times, though I lean more heavily to the conceptual side.
Which type are you?
Jun
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Posted by : | On : June 20, 2006
Someone else shares my depraved perspective of the world. Finally.
Apr
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Posted by : | On : April 11, 2006
By way of Seth Godin, marketing rockstar extraordinaire, comes this link on How to be a Successful Evil Overlord.
If some of these foibles weren’t true, the author of the page couldn’t provide such ‘advice.’ Are any of your villains guilty in making such obvious mistakes?
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