Archive for December, 2007
How to keep a New Year’s resolution
A year ago I mentioned I’d signed up for a study on keeping New Year’s resolutions, and the main advice my control group got was to go public. The resolution I used in the study was writing a novel, so I actually achieved it, and telling many people I knew about it definitely helped me [...]
Looking back on 2007’s writing resolutions
I think that with a couple of weeks left of 2007, it’s too early to be freaking out about the resolutions I’ve broken, but my email inbox featured not 1 or 2 but 3 emails from various writing lists about which resolutions I managed to keep this year. So perhaps it’s time to look at [...]
Testing story ideas: The dinner table method
A recent post over at Vagabondish, part of a series on being a better travel writer, had a quote from a Robert McKee book which seems like something I could keep in mind with fiction story ideas. Robert McKee himself explains it best:
Next time you’re out with a friend, ask him or her if you [...]