Category Archives: Write Thought

Six Months of Daily Haiku

The biggest surprise has been the effect that this has become a writing practice. I realized this a while ago, and of course, as soon as I did it stopped working so well. Continue reading

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Writing Exercise: Daily Haiku

I was told some Buddhist monks would ask themselves, once a day: Where have I been inspired today? Where have I been challenged, or stretched, or grown today? Where have I been surprised today? Where have I been deeply touched … Continue reading

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Creativitism: The Four Noble Truths of Creativity

Some of my categories and tags have made reference to creativity (e.g. Write Thought) as a practice akin to Buddhism. So, I thought, “Hey, why not lay it out explicitly as such?” This is tongue in cheek, of course. But … Continue reading

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You have a creative block. So what?

I only discovered this Mann’s song project through this video. Jonathan Mann has written a song a day since January 1st, 2009. He’s going to hit his 1,000th song later this year. Below is a link to a kickstart project … Continue reading

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5 Steps to Survive Being Overwhelmed

This has been a pretty overwhelming week. I’ve been preparing two games for the Endgame Minicon tomorrow. Tied up ends on a photo project over the weekend. And there have been some other writing projects that are pretty hush hush … Continue reading

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Dare to Fail

If you want to succeed, get yourself okay with being crappy at something. I’ve been doing non-fiction posts of late because I’ve been working on a piece for Soft Copy Publishing‘s upcoming publication. A small press publisher that focuses on … Continue reading

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5 Steps to Help You Procrastinate

I’m very good at procrastination. You might be too. If it were an Olympic sport, I’d definitely try out for the team. Well, maybe tomorrow. It’s often really frustrating, though. Leading up to a deadline, I stress out about what … Continue reading

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Getting Ahead to Fall Behind

By the end of last weekend I had most of the week of blog posts laid out. I felt pretty good. Finally, I wouldn’t need to cram in some time at night for a post the next morning. And now … Continue reading

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30 Days

This is the end of the road. It’s also the beginning of my journey. I set out at the beginning of the month to post every day for the month, except weekends. I did it. It’s the end of that … Continue reading

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Finding the Time

I’m starting this post on the bus. It’s just after 10 pm and I have an hour commute ahead of me tonight, and another in the morning to be back into work in 11 hours. And here I am, writing. … Continue reading

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