Nothing Times Infinity
[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] Nothing Times Infinity I get it. There are "bad" days. Days, on which you just don't feel like working on your project, whatever it might be. Maybe you feel a little under the weather, you're exhausted because the boss of your day job has given you...
The Opposite of Right
[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] The Opposite of Right There are things we want to achieve. In writing and in life. But sometimes, no matter how hard we try to make a specific part of our script or our life better, it just doesn't seem right. Something doesn't work. And the harder...
The Grass Is Never Greener
[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] The Grass Is Never Greener The mind is always looking for the greener grass. It never stops. When you're an aspiring writer you think everything is fine once you have your first sales. Once you have your first sales you think everything will be fine once...
The Risk-Security-Relationship
[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] The Risk-Security-Relationship A lot of what we do every day is based on the assumption that what we do gives us less risk and more security. Which is fine. In part. An example: If you like to go offshore sailing in the arctic sea and you know what...
A Development Program In One Step
[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] A Development Program In One Step There's never more than one step: THE NEXT STEP. No matter what you do. Everything has just the next step. And then the next one. And the next one. In writing and in life. Feeling overwhelmed comes from thinking about the steps...
Goals vs. Directions
[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] Goals vs. Directions Goals are often misunderstood. People set goals for themselves and when they don't reach them they think of themselves as a failure. Some even set the goals for themselves so high, that they're impossible to reach, so you feel like a failure...
My Opinion About The Truth
[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] My Opinion About The Truth There is no real truth (Okay, maybe enlightened people see things how they really are). There are only words. Opinions. Opinions are the truths of other people. They create their own truth out of their way of thinking. And their way of...
What’s Your Arc?
[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] What's Your Arc? As movie characters do, we too have our arcs. We go through certain phases of personal development, we learn, we change. But how aware of that are you? Movie characters are usually in some kind of unhappy spot in the beginning. They think their...
How Inspiration and “Sitzfleisch” Work Together
[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] How Inspiration and "Sitzfleisch" Work Together When I started out writing, I thought when I just concentrate on it enough, when I put in all the work, when I am willing to more than the others, I will automatically become a great writer. Sound familiar? Other writers...
Is David Lynch Right About Characters?
[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] Is David Lynch Right About Characters? In his book about transcendental meditation David Lynch writes that you don't need to feel what your characters feel. You can distance yourself from that. Other opinions about your connection to your characters that I've come across. No tears in the...