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...
When You Hate What You Wrote
[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] When You Hate What You Wrote Ever had the experience that while you write something you think it's totally brilliant and when you get back to it the next day you read it and all of a sudden you think it sucks? Well, happens to all...
What Will Others Think?
[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] What Will Others Think? Ever heard that voice in your head when you were developing a character, 'what will others think of you if you write that person like that?' Maybe you thought about writing a character that would be a very controversial person in...
Trapped By Emotions?
[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] Trapped By Emotions? Ever had the experience that you were in the middle of a situation with rage or frustration, but later, when the negative emotion subsided you saw that situation very different in hindsight? Fights with your significant other often are like that. Emotions cloud your...
Feeling Overwhelmed? Look The Ball Into Your Hands!
[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] Feeling Overwhelmed? Look The Ball Into Your Hands! Feeling overwhelmed? Again? Constantly? I get it. The things that we need to take care of seem to get more and more, no matter how fast we take care of them. In our day job, with our family, another career...