Did you catch the whiff of new school supplies? Still summer days to go but evidence of return to formal schooling is everywhere. Society's structure for the kids. Us workaday folks need to get our brain boosts also, to keep up with the high tech, high demand lives we lead. Here an easy piece I … [Read more...]
Day 21 Where do you get stalled & what do you do about it?
I've got a program that spots typos and the occasional MIA comma in my public posts installed. And apparently it also calculates my effectiveness in all my document drafts. It sent me a personalized email today stating this week's yield: 8818 words written You were more active than 94% of … [Read more...]
Day 18 Reimagining the To Do List as Dance Card
"I'm dancing as fast as I can," is a well-worn phrase. It's easily claimed by people overloaded at work and scampering madly to keep up with all the tasks heaped onto the 'dance' card of their desks. It's a bold statement, too. It reflects a person's emotional state too, as they high step it … [Read more...]
Day 14 The devil made me do it: my day, diet & marketing
I've wished a lot of worthy men Happy Father's Day today. I did so with sincerity for their valued contribution to someone's life in their world whether they are actual biological dads, or married, or straight or not. Men who care, share life lessons, mentor, nurture, guide, love and serve … [Read more...]
Going the distance – with your map Day 10
I have not been writing nightly, as planned or hoped for. The 1st week went very well. Then, life rolled in more insistently. We get busy.We get preoccupied. The ideas, however, kept flowing. No shortage of those. … [Read more...]
Day 6 of the Fab 45 & “We are not alone”
The small packet of purpose that is my newly declared daily writing project is layering on its benefits. Like a little pearl coat covering the irritant of responsibility there's a kind of luster now around the hours I commit to writing at day's end. The need to rest my brain from the day just … [Read more...]
Road ahead: Fab 45-Day 5 finds the Intersections
Writing to you with something useful and interesting and perhaps even entertaining is on my mind a lot these days. What have the past hundreds upon hundreds of blogs I've birthed into the world had in common? No matter the topic or the source of the publishing impetus, they were written with a … [Read more...]
Can we write ourselves healthy? Social? Successful? Fab 45-Day 4
Do you, as a writer or other creative get your inspiration from the outside world? Swaths of colour in your path. Sound vibrations familiar and foreign. Aromas. Snippets of conversation overheard repurposed first in your mind and then your studio? Me too. … [Read more...]
Unravel first, then (re)knit our writer’s knowledge to serve
After 34 years of writing professionally in many platforms, you’d think I’d know to expect and to manage the process and consequences of being (a) creative. This week, I’m delightfully heartened by the sublime interview scenes and quotes in Art & Copy. This powerful film about advertising and … [Read more...]
Fab 45’s Challenge day 2 recycles ideas, trims word waste
It's clear from the 1st post in this Fab 45 daily blog writing challenge, that I've got a lot to share. But then, so do you. It's the nature of the human condition to want to express ourselves. I do hope you'll share your comments, too. Go ahead, do that in the space below. As for me, I’m … [Read more...]
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