Ink Stains

Recharge

Find the methods you can use to recharge. There are authors, speakers, or books that can always reach and inspire you.

Activities also play a role.

Writers who journal have experienced the benefits. The mind is calmed as the words flow. Also, you become…

The New Obsessions

We get clues. The new obsessions present themselves and once they do there’s no turning back. Your mind becomes engulfed. There is a notion that you chase after because your ignorance on a subject is no longer acceptable.

Stories and Approach

Stories show us that we are not alone.

We are all connected through our experiences. Sure, the colors vary, but the fundamentals are the same.

We will live, love, lose, and gain. We will be overcome with just how lucky we are and lament at…

Losing Yourself

Losing yourself in a great piece of art reminds you of the goal. Living the experience creates the goal of providing the experience for others.

Looking Back

Some years are more monumental than others. Or that’s how it seems.

Single years stand out in our memories as if they lasted for ten.

Time and memory are like that.

Make Good Art — a Sunday Practice

In his podcast, Tim Ferriss shared that every Sunday he watches Neil Gaiman’s amazing commencement speech “Make Good Art.” For any of us pursuing a creative field, viewing this should be a prerequisite.

Ira Glass, host of This American Life, recently gave some advice for anyone embarking on creative endeavors.

Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s…

Taking a Look

Take inspiration where it is found. Blogging every day is nothing more than noticing and writing down what you see or what you feel.

The world is full of stimuli, and it is the writer’s job to bring form to observation through words.

The world is an unlimited resource.

Experiment

Pushing your writing with experimentation helps progress. Maybe something needs shifting. A first person narrative may work better in the third-person limited point of view — or maybe it won’t.

The only way to know is to try.