writing
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How Information Overload Turns Into Writer's Block
My morning ritual is pretty consistent. I hop up out my bed, turn my swag on, I look myself in the mirror and say “what’s up!?”. Every morning. That is followed by my morning constitutional where I catch up on the news. And there is always news. In fact there is so much news nowadays…
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No Pressure
The other day, I decided I was going to take a “writing day.” I had heard my writer friends speak of this often. They wake, have a cup of coffee or tea, eat breakfast, change their clothes, and then either sit at a desk or take themselves to Starbucks to work. They treat their writing…
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Six Tips For Everyone Who's Ever Emailed Me For Advice On How To Start A Blog Or How To Write For A Living
1. Perhaps, because I’ve managed to create a popular blog and etch out a career where people pay me money to write words about things on a computer screen so that people can read them, you’ve assumed that I have unique insights to offer. This is understandable, as you’re not the first and will not…
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Some Lessons For Aspiring Writers Everywhere
Last week, I set my momma up for the fall. Not on purpose, of course, but the end result was the same nonetheless. I took an assumption – my mother MIGHT vote for Trump – and couched it in two stories that without context (and for some people, even with context) painted my mother in…
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I Write For A Living, And I Have The Shittiest Handwriting You'll Ever See, And I Don't Care
Between 10am and 10pm on Wednesday, I… …wrote 500 or so words on a rapper who calls himself “Slim Jesus”… …edited and published a piece about a guy who’s a lawyer and an aspiring rapper… …wrote up a ranking of types of pork… …wrote several hundred words about James Blake’s arrest… …wrote 700 or so…