Hats off to all my friends who are participating in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)! Short-term challenges with well-defined boundaries and specific goals, such as NaNoWriMo, are excellent ways to renew motivation and get back into the flow of writing. One of the requirements of flow—of getting so caught up in an activity that we …
As some of you know, I’m a big fan of Cal Newport, book author and writer at Study Hacks, a blog which explores “patterns of success.” His most recent post, “Welcome to the Post-Productivity World,” speaks to a lot of what I’ve been thinking about lately in terms of time, writing, and big-picture living: Productivity, …
Inspired by a sign on the streets of Manhattan: On another note, for those of you who are interested, my latest Psychology Today blog post is about existential bibliotherapy (using books to deal with life’s ultimate questions), featuring The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya.
When I decided to publish Oscar’s Gift in paperback form as well as an ebook, I was more than a little wary, both of what the final product would look like and of the cost. I admit that, not too long ago, the first image that came to my mind when I thought of a …
Continuing this month’s theme of the need to defrag, I’d like to get other writers’ thoughts on how you handle Facebook. Do you use Facebook as part of your “writing life,” and, if so, how? If not, why not? Fan page? Profile page only? Do you use lists to notify selected friends about blog posts? …