How the Corporate Approach Made Creators Lazy – and Killed Mainstream Creativity
There is intense debate on the internet these days about the quality of storytelling and media that is available, especially in the mainstream. On the one hand, you have the generational argument: that everybody grows up thinking their generation’s music and movies are better than what the “young kids” are listening to nowadays. But on […]
I’m Not Showing Up
Image by Michael Gaida from Pixabay It is March 3rd as I write this, and my goal for the New Year has already failed. That probably sounds familiar, doesn’t it? Everyone makes New Year’s Resolutions and wind up failing them around this time. That’s why this is the best time to join a gym – […]
I’m a Writer. I’m Also NOT a Writer.
I’m not a writer. When I sit down to write a blog post, I start thinking about easily-dividable things I can write. Like what features of Todoist I like to use. Or Mac apps I prefer. Or the reasons I like to use my wireless earbuds. It’s not that these types of content don’t have […]
My 17 Must-Have Mac Apps as a Writer
Image by Pexels from Pixabay I’m still crabby about it. I’m a huge flag-waver for Chrome OS. I think Chromebooks are incredible machines, most are reasonably priced, and probably 80-90% of the general public would do just fine with a Chromebook. In fact, I sold my old 2015 MacBook Air in 2017 to return to […]
Why is building a daily writing habit so hard?
Image by StockSnap from Pixabay Let’s do some math. A typical Hardwick novel is about 70 chapters long. I could, with little effort, write one chapter per day during the week. With 5 weekdays every week, that means I could write and complete a new Hardwick book in 14 weeks, or a little over three […]