by Margaret | Dec 30, 2014 | creativity, process, writing life
As promised, here’s the report-back from my attempt to start a new creative habit, “From the Frontline,” as it were. The effect of attaching a new task (writing 3 pages of flash fiction) to a weekly task (laundry) was … postponement: “Well, the...
by Margaret | Dec 23, 2014 | creativity, process, writing life
I’ve read so much about creative habit formation recently that the following information can not be fairly attributed to any one source. However, I know that Agile Lifestyle does very thorough research, so if you’d like more detail, definitely visit his...
by Margaret | Nov 6, 2014 | process, writing life
Over the past summer, I’ve attended a number of author readings, and learned that the question almost every author gets asked is: Where do you get your ideas? If you’ve been following my adventures since Taste Life Twice, no doubt you’ve learned that...
by Margaret | Sep 9, 2014 | language, process, Titbits
“Mufti” If given this word in a board game and forced to make up a definition, what would yours be? I came across it in a book by Ian Rankin, Resurrection Men. It was the first I’ve read of his many novels, and I saw why he is accounted such a Master...
by Margaret | Aug 29, 2014 | process
As those of you who read the last newsletter would know, I promised a couple blog posts on the New Things I’ve been doing this year (if you’d like to get the newsletter, sign up here!). Today I’ll touch on one of the subjects that has given me...
by Margaret | Aug 1, 2014 | creativity, events, process
Maybe you think you know what an IdeaBoard is. But I’m here to needle you by saying, maybe you don’t know all it CAN be. For example, perhaps you used context clues and your own good sense to surmise that an IdeaBoard is a board on which an author places...
