Sneaking Up On Life From Oblique Angles
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As I come to the end of a decently long stretch of unemployment, I have had time to reflect on the many lessons this experience has taught me. Deep, reverberating life-lessons such as:
You can only enjoy so many long walks.
You can only digest so much chocolate
You can only watch so much Oprah1
In fact, the most [...]
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Do any of you make a living from writing?
This is question that I have wondered about many times before, but now that I am in the market for a new living, it has taken on a somewhat greater urgency…
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Dearest subconscious mind,
I know that we have not always gotten along in the past. I can be, well, a little bossy and you…you have your moments as well. But putting all that aside, I wanted to apologize for my role in certain regrettable events. I’m sure you remember the recent job crisis and how I shut you down and basically locked you out of all daily operations, in a desperate attempt to keep your sense of fun and irreverence from displeasing my master employers…
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What I Know – A Very Short Article
by Brent on October 14, 2007
in Commentary
One of the oldest and most reliable pieces of advice given to any writer is to “write what you know.” This is great council for writers of all levels of ability, because you can lie about things that you know with a level of detail and conviction that would be completely lacking in a subject unfamiliar to you.
That’s why you find John Grisham writing about lawyers, Robin Cook writing about doctors, and Steven King writing about disturbingly freaky people you probably wouldn’t want to be alone with…
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