Anybody who follows me on Twitter probably knows I LOVE “The Four Hour Work Week” by Timothy Ferriss. Here are a few of my favorite nuggets of his wisdom in the area of creating a fulfilling life:
“Focus on being productive instead of busy” (p. 33).
“If it’s important to you and you want to ...
read more »
A harsher version of Lily Portman
In earlier drafts of "Intangible," the character of Lily was much more obnoxious than she even turned out to be in the finished product. For a sneak peak into how she started out in my imagination, check out this alternate scene of her first meeting with Peter! Just before this scene, in order to ...
read more »
On Being a Self Published Author
Last week the lovely Jorie of Jorie Loves a Story was kind enough to host a live Q&A with me on her blog. One of the questions that came up in the course of the conversation was why I decided to self-publish.
I finished “Intangible” in 2011, which was right about at the tipping point for self ...
read more »
Side Projects Galore!
I’ve decided to turn “Intangible” into an audiobook. I *could* just hire a production company to read/produce it and either pay them outright or split royalties. But then I found out from a tech-savvy friend that you can actually get the equipment for around $60, download a program to do it for ...
read more »
What Makes a Powerful Story?
I got the idea for my next series in May, when I was in Puerto Rico with my family. I had this premonition that I’d be really sad once I’d published “Impossible” unless I had something new coming down the pipeline, so I wanted to make sure I had another book to be excited about before that happened. ...
read more »
Piercing the Veil Series: My Writing Journey
In honor of release day for “Impossible,” the third and final book in my “Piercing the Veil” trilogy (YAY!!), here’s a quick overview of my almost decade-long journey of writing this series.
In 2005 I started MySpace blogging (remember MySpace?! If you don’t, shut up. You’re making me feel old.) ...
read more »
I started my next series!!!
I have to do *something* with my writing self, because “Impossible” is already out of my hands… and I can’t just not write.
I wasn’t planning on writing a “blurb” for it until I had more than 30 pages written, which is about where I’m at now. But I do have the entire trilogy planned out, and I ...
read more »
Random Film Projects
I started doing theater back in high school and found out I LOVED it. I think partly this is because I find psychology so fascinating — I love getting into the mind of a character, understanding her motivations for the lines and infusing my performance with that interpretation. (This is also partly ...
read more »
I have a new office!!!
Sometimes things just fall into place perfectly, with no effort whatsoever.
…This was *not* one of those times.
A list of obstacles in getting this place:
Two emergency family surgeries
Inability to get set up for phone/internet for the first week of operation
Inability of the poor ...
read more »
On being your own boss
I never wanted to be an entrepreneur. That always sounded like way too much responsibility as far as I was concerned… and besides, I’m a model employee. I’m serious: I’m super respectful, I always go above and beyond, I arrive early so that I’m always on time and I stay until the job is done, ...
read more »
- « Previous Page
- 1
- …
- 67
- 68
- 69
- 70
- 71
- 72
- Next Page »
