What Would the ‘Depression of the Future’ Look Like?
This is a previously published post about writing ideas about using your settings as characters. In the latest issue of Wired magazine, I’m reading an article about the “depression of the future.” So I decided to think about this “depression [...]
Read MoreInformation Diet Plans: Not Your Ordinary “Atkins Diet”
Musing, not reviewing a book This isn’t a book review, but the ideas in the preface of The Information Diet excited me. Call it a pre-screening. Mashing up ideas In an earlier post, I wrote about a literary technique called defamiliarization: The writer’s job [...]
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What Would the ‘Depression of the Future’ Look Like?
This is a previously published post about writing ideas about using your settings as characters. In the latest issue of [...]
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Information Diet Plans: Not Your Ordinary “Atkins Diet”
Musing, not reviewing a book This isn’t a book review, but the ideas in the preface of The Information Diet excited me. Call [...]
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Living Worry-Free on the Banks of Plum Creek
Growing up, I was a fan of the TV series Little House on the Prairie. Maybe this young boy should have [...]
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How to Impact Others Using Stories
Recently, I read a chapter in a book about how stories can impact others. The point of the book was [...]
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Malcolm Gladwell’s ‘Outliers: The Story of Success’
This is a previously published blog post. Browse through the categories for other ways to feed your writing muse. I’ve [...]
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Discovering Writing Contests, Stephen King Style
Learn more how you can participate in i09.com's writing challenge.
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