This might be my favorite thing I’ve read in a couple weeks, an essay by Emily St. John Mandel about the work that goes into writing, and how — in its own way — that work is reward enough for all those hours spent in solitude. It’s not just the glimpse into the life of […]
Three Years of The Juggling Writer
The Juggling Writer has made it to year three. 375 posts…125 a year. Not quite my goal of 3 posts/week, but still close. If the blog were a tequila, it would be certified Extra Añejo. Were it a child, the terrible twos would be a thing of the past, and all kinds of cool things […]
Unplugging from the Internet
I know I can go 101 days without social media. Giving up Twitter, Google+, and especially Facebook isn’t too tough for me. I can go without a telephone, too. (I’m also not much of a fan of text messages.) The one thing I always check daily, though, is email. So…this past weekend, I unplugged it […]
A Book Signing Warning
Years ago when I was doing a comic book with my wife, we had a brilliant idea: “Sign all orders!” Every book that sold through a distributor was signed before shipping. Looking back, we were lucky we only had to sign what probably totaled a little over 500 comic books. At the time, we thought […]
A Question of Time
I meant to write this post a couple weeks ago, but time got in the way. At least that’s how we’re conditioned to look at it — when we don’t get to things or do things, it’s a matter of time. “I don’t have the time,” has become our mantra…and our prayer is, “What I […]
Why Take a Social Media Break?
I like social media. I like staying in touch with friends from other places, chatting with people about writing and publishing, and finding people with similar hobbies and discussing them. Even at my quietest, years ago when I was terribly shy, I liked people. I love the Internet for no other reason than it’s brought […]
Unbelieveable!
I’ve written some absurd stories in my time…deliberately. I’m fine with ridiculous; I can swallow the occasional thing that isn’t realistic for the sake of story. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: those who believe truth is stranger than fiction just aren’t reading the right fiction! Coleridge talked about “…that willing suspension […]
Ideas and Time (And a Change of Perspective)
I know it’s been quiet around here, lately. It’s not that I haven’t been thinking about blog entries — I have. I’ve started some entries, but…they keep growing into more than just a short entry. Starting a new job last week, and helping my wife get ready for something this past weekend…The Juggling Writer has […]
The Power of the Day Job
A week from today, I start a new day job. If you follow The Juggling Writer, you know I’m a tech writer…and you know that while I talk about my day job on occasion, I don’t talk specifically about where I work. So I won’t discuss that, but…during the interview process for the new day […]
Twenty Years
My wife knew my writing before she knew me. We’d been hired to work for an independent comic book company — me, as a writer and her, as an artist. She’d read several scripts I’d written and she hoped that we’d work together on something, but that wasn’t to be. Still…she knew my writing and […]
Essay Drawing Winner
Sunday, I used ye olde random number generator to determine who won the Kindle Touch I’m giving away for the Hell Comes with Wood Paneled Doors essay contest. Congratulations to Anita Callender!
What Consumes You?
I recently wrote about the effort many writers spend in pursuit of getting people to know they exist…how the race to create a “platform” or “brand” trumps actually writing for some. It’s a pretty simple formula: spend a lot of time totally connected to social media, being a personality who shares links to great writing […]
The Effort of It All
When the effort involved in getting people to know your writing exists becomes almost as much as the writing itself (or more), is it really worth it? What have we lost when we constantly update Facebook and Twitter at every free moment instead of sitting or standing in silence, thinking? Is productivity killing your creativity? […]
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