This week — Monday through Friday — I’m talking about criticism. Today: The Benefits of Criticism. Tuesday: 5 Ways to Handle Criticism Wednesday: 5 Ways to Give Good Critiques Thursday: Criticism — It’s Not an Editor’s Job Friday: The Best Critique I Ever Received The Benefits of Criticism Learning to deal with criticism is one […]
The Juggling Writer – One Month In…
I’m one month in to The Juggling Writer. My goal was to have 12-15 posts (posting roughly 3 times a week). I wrote 22 posts (including this one), totaling 8,976 words (408-word average per post). Next week I plan to post a daily series about criticism. I hope you’ll enjoy it and reply. Thanks for […]
Cut It Out: Eliminate These 5 Things for More Writing Time
It’s been over a year since the day my wife and I were watching TV and it went out. It made a little clicking noise, and then it went black. Kaput! The TV had died. There was a moment of panic: “What will we do?! Civilization will crumble without TV; this is clearly the beginning […]
5 Ways to Deal with Writer’s Block
You sit down to write and the words don’t flow. You get frustrated and maybe check e-mail. You pace; you might even do some cleaning or watch TV. You tell yourself that you’ll get back to writing after your writer’s block goes away. Hours, days, months, even years later, it’s still there. Writer’s block is […]
5 Writing Lessons Learned from Street Performing
Before I ever made money writing, I made money juggling. When I started writing, I realized many of the lessons learned from street performing applied to writing. The first time I juggled for money, I was given permission to juggle in the plaza in front of Dallas’ West End Marketplace. I went to Dallas by […]
10 Rules for Starting a Writing Group
“The first rule of Write Club is you do not talk about Write Club.” A handful of years ago, two friends and I started a writing group. We called it Write Club. We only had one rule for the group when starting: “No more than five members.” For years, it’s remained just the three of […]
Biology 101 to Writing 101 (Or: Who is this Christopher Guy, Anyway?)
I never thought I’d be a writer. I always thought I’d be a biologist. While I always loved reading and making up stories, I thought my adult years would find me studying bears or wolves as a wildlife biologist. I remember the moment I decided that’s what I’d be: my father and I were watching […]
How to Juggle
When I was twelve, I went into my backyard and taught myself how to juggle. It wasn’t something I’d thought about doing — I was bored and needed something to do. The only jugglers I remember seeing: Steve Martin A clown at a third-rate circus A guy at a Renaissance festival I didn’t have the […]
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