David Gane

Archive

Jun 2023

2: Ripples in the pond

Jun 2023

2: Mistakes happen

May 2023

31: Pebbles

May 2023

30: My first posts

May 2023

29: Someone needs your words

May 2023

28: Success online

May 2023

27: Selling one-to-one

May 2023

26: Reflections on the series finale of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

May 2023

25: ACTIAMO

May 2023

24: The riff, the atomic essay, the very short story

May 2023

23: Failed projects

May 2023

22: Obstacles

May 2023

21: Inner wants shape your character's lives

May 2023

20: The order of adjectives

May 2023

19: My own database

May 2023

18: The danger of writing solid characters in a murder mystery

May 2023

17: Status, Safety, Meaning

May 2023

16: Mountain roads

May 2023

15: Rediscover your influences

May 2023

14: In case of emergency

May 2023

11: 0 to 1

May 2023

10: What is Stanford Design Thinking?

May 2023

9: Collaborating with flawed mental models

May 2023

8: Start small

May 2023

7: Writers don't always get respect

May 2023

6: James Patterson's writing process

May 2023

4: Trusting our tools

May 2023

3: How Collaboration Breaks Down

May 2023

2: A trustworthy writing tool

May 2023

1: Open to Possibility

Apr 2023

30: Wants evolve

Apr 2023

27: Four sentences

Apr 2023

26: Embrace collaboration

Apr 2023

25: Yourself and others

Apr 2023

24: The more I write...

Apr 2023

23: Writing is a tension

Apr 2023

22: What are you giving people?

Apr 2023

21: The hardest thing

Apr 2023

20: Who do you write for?

Apr 2023

19: The need to write

Apr 2023

18: Connection

Apr 2023

17: Looking at the sky

Apr 2023

14: The cold cabin

Apr 2023

13: You don’t have to go it alone.

Apr 2023

12: Storybuilding is a rehearsal

Apr 2023

11: You’re never alone in your writing

Apr 2023

10: Which one are you making?

Apr 2023

8: What works for me may not work for you

Apr 2023

7: Start with nothing

Apr 2023

6: Momentum

Apr 2023

5: How many?

Apr 2023

4: Writing books and selling books

Apr 2023

3: Story structure as a guide

Apr 2023

2: Imperfections make a character

Apr 2023

1: ⏳ Peak Decade

Mar 2023

31: What could someone do?

Mar 2023

30: "How do you write it?"

Mar 2023

29: Process over tools

Mar 2023

28: Empathy instead of Authenticity

Mar 2023

27: Writing in bed

Mar 2023

26: In two days, I will be 50

Mar 2023

25: Moving day

Mar 2023

24: We received a City of Regina Book of the Year nomination

Mar 2023

23: Your reader wants you to show up

Mar 2023

22: Rewriting is a gift to your reader

Mar 2023

21: The gift of feedback

Mar 2023

20: Listening to my heart

Mar 2023

18: Daydream

Mar 2023

17: Things I need to remind myself about

Mar 2023

16: More than writing

Mar 2023

15: Do you know who's telling your story?

Mar 2023

14: A few thoughts on inspiration

Mar 2023

13: Inside or out?

Mar 2023

12: Edges of a character’s goal

Mar 2023

11: People are watching

Mar 2023

10: Reflecting on Meteorite

Mar 2023

9: Hello 7/8s and 5/6s

Mar 2023

8: Open for business

Mar 2023

7: The map is not the territory

Mar 2023

6: Bernadette Mayer's Four Hours

Mar 2023

5: What happens if you miss a few days?

Mar 2023

2: You decide the pace

Mar 2023

1: The struggle to share

Feb 2023

28: Get the order right

Feb 2023

27: "Don't you run out of ideas?"

Feb 2023

26: Empty words

Feb 2023

25: Who are you writing for?

Feb 2023

24: AI is here, and it’s stealing our jobs

Feb 2023

23: Replacing bad habits

Feb 2023

22: Growth

Feb 2023

21: Forgetting

Feb 2023

20: Don’t hide in the Gaps

Feb 2023

19: Every story has its own internal structure

Feb 2023

18: Be Bored

Feb 2023

17: I didn’t want to write yesterday’s blog post

Feb 2023

16: 1 minute work day

Feb 2023

15: Don't forget to say thank you

Feb 2023

14: Rethinking Needs vs Wants

Feb 2023

13: The cover letter is redundant

Feb 2023

12: AI is here to stay

Feb 2023

11: AI is a tool

Feb 2023

10: All the rules and none of the rules and somewhere in-between

Feb 2023

9: What you want and what you get

Feb 2023

8: How do you want to live?

Feb 2023

6: Write joyfully

Feb 2023

4: Change through choice

Feb 2023

3: Your writing is about choice

Feb 2023

2: Tomorrow

Feb 2023

1: ⏰ The ticking clock

Jan 2023

31: Sit down and write

Jan 2023

30: 1 out of 365

Jan 2023

29: A corner of the kitchen table

Jan 2023

28: Responsibilities

Jan 2023

27: We all have something going on

Jan 2023

26: Patience

Jan 2023

25: Story sometimes starts as doodles

Jan 2023

24: Jigsaw

Jan 2023

23: Practice and remember

Jan 2023

22: Share and listen

Jan 2023

21: Manage your time

Jan 2023

20: Stories take time

Jan 2023

19: Rubik’s Cube

Jan 2023

18: Collaborate with the world

Jan 2023

17: Everything is a remix

Jan 2023

16: Meteorite

Jan 2023

15: When the story doesn't work

Jan 2023

14: Strategies to help with endings

Jan 2023

13: Fifty words are only a start

Jan 2023

12: Six months

Jan 2023

11: Stopping early

Jan 2023

10: 50 Words

Jan 2023

8: Tension in the subtext

Jan 2023

7: Focus through the edit

Jan 2023

6: Embrace uncertainty

Jan 2023

5: Getting better

Jan 2023

4: The One in Charge of Elastic Bands

Jan 2023

3: In moments of release

Jan 2023

2: Skating with joy

Jan 2023

1: 🎉 My most resonant thing of 2022

Dec 2022

31: Drip by drip

Dec 2022

30: Make them struggle

Dec 2022

29: Give Characters Goals

Dec 2022

28: Write regularly

Dec 2022

27: My Fiction Writing Manifesto

Dec 2022

25: Let yourself have fun

Dec 2022

24: Time, patience, and showing up

Dec 2022

23: One of the unlucky

Dec 2022

22: Problem Solvers

Dec 2022

21: Bad versions are allowed

Dec 2022

20: You might get it wrong

Dec 2022

19: I remember

Dec 2022

18: Storytelling is about patterns

Dec 2022

17: How do you form a story?

Dec 2022

16: What if…?

Dec 2022

15: Some days, the writing won’t come.

Dec 2022

14: It’s always a daily challenge

Dec 2022

13: Don’t rush it

Dec 2022

11: Let words spark

Dec 2022

10: When you find you are struggling with your writing

Dec 2022

9: Tension, not conflict

Dec 2022

8: Outline as your life journey

Dec 2022

7: Showing up and sticking with it

Dec 2022

6: Be easy on yourself

Dec 2022

4: Let your reader settle in

Dec 2022

3: End of the day

Dec 2022

2: Fill the black hole with consistency

Dec 2022

1: Savour one thing

Nov 2022

30: Rest, but only for a bit

Nov 2022

29: The not-always-obvious song

Nov 2022

28: A Snow Tale

Nov 2022

27: The safe path of story

Nov 2022

26: Teaching taste

Nov 2022

25: Just how terribly wrong can it go?

Nov 2022

24: Transitive verbs

Nov 2022

23: What is the simplest action?

Nov 2022

22: What is Die Hard about?

Nov 2022

21: A Weight on His Shoulders

Nov 2022

20: Vibe, tension, and resonance

Nov 2022

19: There’s more to writing than writing

Nov 2022

18: Skip it

Nov 2022

17: Housework is like junk food

Nov 2022

16: Do you like writing?

Nov 2022

15: 20 ideas

Nov 2022

14: After the movie

Nov 2022

13: Nobody knows anything...still

Nov 2022

12: Write for others. Write for yourself.

Nov 2022

11: Try, try again

Nov 2022

10: Front Garden/Back Garden

Nov 2022

9: Where are we going?

Nov 2022

8: Give yourself time

Nov 2022

7: The Owl

Nov 2022

6: Get the best people

Nov 2022

5: Chase your interests

Nov 2022

4: Don’t let your circumstances be your excuse

Nov 2022

3: Showing up is a skill

Nov 2022

2: Mistakes aren't the end of the world

Nov 2022

1: The stuff you don't hear about

Oct 2022

31: Dead Bees

Oct 2022

30: Tell us what’s in your head

Oct 2022

29: Keep a list of ideas on your calendar

Oct 2022

28: Learn to outline

Oct 2022

27: Save your scraps

Oct 2022

26: Do you know who you are writing for?

Oct 2022

25: Play on the page

Oct 2022

24: Mathuin's bear

Oct 2022

23: At the start, write

Oct 2022

22: Get it on the page

Oct 2022

21: Face the fear

Oct 2022

20: The scent of cinnamon

Oct 2022

19: Learn to cut

Oct 2022

18: The Basics of WOARO and Story

Oct 2022

17: The Picnic

Oct 2022

16: There are no rules

Oct 2022

15: Does your grammar suck?

Oct 2022

14: Feedback sucks

Oct 2022

13: Start now

Oct 2022

12: Write it anyway

Oct 2022

11: Story is about interruption

Oct 2022

10: The Sedge

Oct 2022

9: Story is About Struggle

Oct 2022

8: An argument against the smooth read

Oct 2022

7: Smooth down the edges.

Oct 2022

6: Random Word Generator

Oct 2022

5: Closing the loop

Oct 2022

4: In search of closed actions

Oct 2022

3: An Empty House in the Dark Woods

Oct 2022

2: Proofreading hints

Oct 2022

1: 81

Sep 2022

30: The Intention of Action and Dialogue

Sep 2022

29: Practice Makes Better

Sep 2022

28: Character descriptions in scripts

Sep 2022

27: Know when to stop

Sep 2022

26: Beneath the ferns

Sep 2022

25: Want as Desire and Need

Sep 2022

24: Letting go

Sep 2022

23: Status

Sep 2022

22: Creative inspiration doesn’t magically appear.

Sep 2022

21: Repetition and TUTs

Sep 2022

20: Focus on one thing.

Sep 2022

19: A Moveable Rock

Sep 2022

18: Making mistakes

Sep 2022

17: An Ongoing List to Generate Story Ideas

Sep 2022

16: Pushing the limits of story

Sep 2022

15: When the audience misinterprets our work

Sep 2022

14: Two months

Sep 2022

13: Reading to others

Sep 2022

12: The Water Bearer's Weight

Sep 2022

11: Move through your descriptions

Sep 2022

10: The inner want of control

Sep 2022

9: The obstacle of self-identity

Sep 2022

8: Arguing with the audience

Sep 2022

7: The triangle of story.

Sep 2022

6: Story is about change.

Sep 2022

5: Journey’s End

Sep 2022

4: Should I buy this writing book?

Sep 2022

3: The hard part of writing

Sep 2022

2: What needs to stay or go

Sep 2022

1: Does there always have to be conflict?

Aug 2022

31: Finding the intention of want

Aug 2022

30: More about your character’s spine

Aug 2022

29: The Fallen Tower

Aug 2022

28: A character’s objectives and spine

Aug 2022

27: Units and objectives

Aug 2022

26: Keep it simple

Aug 2022

25: Keep action and response on the page

Aug 2022

24: Character is Action

Aug 2022

23: What does your character want?

Aug 2022

22: The Fire and the Mist

Aug 2022

21: Want, Need, and Desire

Aug 2022

20: Story beats

Aug 2022

19: The danger of setting up your story

Aug 2022

18: Your character already wants something

Aug 2022

17: Exploring Action

Aug 2022

16: Learning to fail

Aug 2022

15: North

Aug 2022

14: Thoughts on posting every day for the past month

Aug 2022

13: NORTAV and action/response links

Aug 2022

12: The Internal Response of Emotion and Thoughts

Aug 2022

11: The Action/Response link

Aug 2022

10: The Missing Elements: Emotion and Showing

Aug 2022

9: WOARO

Aug 2022

8: Slipping

Aug 2022

7: The Only Story Formula You’ll Ever Need to Master

Aug 2022

6: Collaborating with Angie

Aug 2022

5: Questions raised by “The Science of Storytelling” and Hemingway’s Short Stories

Aug 2022

4: Character, MICE, and the Science of Storytelling

Aug 2022

3: My Writing Habit for these Blog Posts

Aug 2022

2: Getting rid of glue words

Aug 2022

1: Millions of Stars

Jul 2022

31: Find the Center of Gravity

Jul 2022

30: How to write a funeral speech

Jul 2022

29: Back-dating my posts

Jul 2022

28: How I became a writing coaching

Jul 2022

27: Morning Pages

Jul 2022

26: Take something off the shelf

Jul 2022

25: The Circle

Jul 2022

24: Interrupting Routines

Jul 2022

23: Using Reincorporation to Shape Your Story

Jul 2022

22: Reincorporation: a trick for getting unstuck

Jul 2022

21: A three act structure for short fiction

Jul 2022

20: Try/Fail cycles for conflict

Jul 2022

19: The MICE quotient and nesting boxes

Jul 2022

18: The burning sands

Jul 2022

17: Travel days are the worst for me.

Jul 2022

16: How to skip a day of posting to your blog

Jul 2022

15: One way I worked through writer’s block

Jul 2022

14: Why I teach

Jul 2022

13: Early Takeaways from The 22 Laws of Digital Writing

Jul 2022

10: Another day at the office

Jul 2022

7: It’s been a while.

Jul 2022

3: Arthur's Dream

Jun 2022

29: Pushing through work

Apr 2022

22: I haven't been around in a while.

Mar 2022

16: ✋ Saying No

Mar 2022

2: 📝 Showing up

Feb 2022

16: 💪 Small shovelfuls

Feb 2022

1: ✍️ Learning to write again

Jan 2022

18: Who do you write for?

Jan 2022

12: The Blue Butterflies

Jan 2022

2: The case of the all-consuming holiday

Dec 2021

26: Make the writing better

Dec 2021

26: Devil’s Dive

Dec 2021

22: 📚 A sci-fi Christmas Story

Dec 2021

22: Thomas vs. the reindeer

Dec 2021

19: 👋 Hello again

Dec 2021

19: Blizzard

Dec 2021

15: Among the trees

Dec 2021

15: On Hiatus: Story time

Dec 2021

12: On Hiatus: Still not a newsletter

Dec 2021

7: On Hiatus: Hello from the other side

Dec 2021

7: How I became a writer

Dec 2021

1: Full stop

Nov 2021

24: Offering our books online

Nov 2021

21: A few thoughts on Dune

Nov 2021

21: Brains are eaten by zombies

Nov 2021

17: Dealing with self-sabotage

Nov 2021

10: 5 Essential Books on Screenwriting

Nov 2021

3: Resources to make your writing less sticky

Nov 2021

2: "People like us do things like this."

Nov 2021

1: Early reflections on time blocking

Oct 2021

31: Notes from Ludwig

Oct 2021

29: Build your own fiction quadrant

Oct 2021

28: Let yourself look stupid to learn

Oct 2021

27: Finding the time to write

Oct 2021

27: Fiction Lessons from Technical Writing

Oct 2021

26: Amplify your strengths

Oct 2021

23: Creative platform vs. Personal Brand

Oct 2021

21: How stores trick you into buying more things

Oct 2021

21: Operate from your truth

Oct 2021

20: Five thoughts on outlining

Oct 2021

20: The architect and the gardener

Oct 2021

19: Characteristics vs. Traits

Oct 2021

15: Mark Ruffalo on his big break

Oct 2021

14: 'Does the Dog Die?'

Oct 2021

13: Building your audience

Oct 2021

12: F*** up together

Oct 2021

6: Can you make a living as an author?

Sep 2021

29: How to sell your books without feeling like trash

Sep 2021

24: Rhyming

Sep 2021

22: Advice to move past a creative block

Sep 2021

22: Tim Ferris on Feedback

Sep 2021

15: Learn from the pros

Sep 2021

8: Let your writing marinate

Sep 2021

3: This isn’t the newsletter

Aug 2021

27: The Good Stuff Stays

Aug 2021

20: The Silence

Aug 2021

20: The danger of simplicity

Aug 2021

20: Can story exist without conflict?

Aug 2021

19: It’s about the paperclips

Aug 2021

18: Being Jupiter, Conflict, and Doing Nothing

Aug 2021

16: Story is not plot.

Aug 2021

13: Going all in.

Aug 2021

6: Make it happen

Jul 2021

30: Are we getting less creative?

Jul 2021

26: QotW: Immediate understanding

Jul 2021

23: Did we make the right decision?

Jul 2021

22: Did we make the right decision to quit selling through Amazon?

Jul 2021

19: QotW: Helpful advice

Jul 2021

16: Within walking distance

Jul 2021

13: QotW: Big Projects

Jul 2021

9: Be curious

Jul 2021

9: Comments are now open

Jul 2021

4: Seeking a better path

Jun 2021

25: Some things end, some things change

Jun 2021

25: I wrote a new story every day for 31 days. This is what I learned.

Jun 2021

24: Moments Pass Like These

Jun 2021

22: Western Red Lilies

Jun 2021

21: Skyline

Jun 2021

20: The Man on the Hill

Jun 2021

19: The Bridge

Jun 2021

18: The HPI

Jun 2021

18: Trying my best

Jun 2021

17: A Visitor in the House

Jun 2021

16: Cabin in the Woods

Jun 2021

15: The Whooping Crane

Jun 2021

14: The Busy Highway

Jun 2021

13: Cat

Jun 2021

13: More thoughts on collaboration

Jun 2021

12: Upping my Collaboration Game

Jun 2021

12: Message

Jun 2021

11: The Light-keeper

Jun 2021

11: Be True to Yourself

Jun 2021

10: The Beeyard

Jun 2021

10: This one tactic improved my stories

Jun 2021

9: Canola Field Comet

Jun 2021

8: These Things Happen

Jun 2021

7: VCR

Jun 2021

6: Twenty Years

Jun 2021

5: The Wish

Jun 2021

4: Northern Lights

Jun 2021

4: Why my story failed

Jun 2021

4: Writing leads to more writing

Jun 2021

3: Jellyfish

Jun 2021

2: Ten Minutes

Jun 2021

1: The Findings of Merril Boyd

May 2021

31: Surrender

May 2021

31: Why I wrote a story a day

May 2021

30: Waiting

May 2021

29: Polaroid

May 2021

28: The Rocks

May 2021

28: Another Weekly Newsletter?

May 2021

27: The Pilot

May 2021

27: Dealing with the Jealousy Alarm

May 2021

26: The Note

May 2021

25: Why the new stories lately?

May 2021

25: Mud Pot

May 2021

24: “What the hell is going on?”

May 2021

21: Where I’ve been

May 2021

21: Creation, not consumption

May 2021

19: Getting Older and Slower

May 2021

18: Coming back to work

Apr 2021

1: 23/ Stretched thin and moving forward

Mar 2021

24: Why is this particular character on this journey?

Mar 2021

11: The Rule of Threes, Conflict, and Starting Your Story

Mar 2021

1: 22/ Blogging is my Hobby

Feb 2021

27: More than One Want

Feb 2021

27: Old Posts

Feb 2021

22: Breaking the Website, Breaking the Book

Feb 2021

19: Story Maps

Feb 2021

16: You’ll get through it

Feb 2021

12: 100 Attempts

Feb 2021

12: Becoming a Streamer

Feb 2021

12: My March Challenge

Feb 2021

9: Make your story (and marketing) rhyme

Feb 2021

8: What I want to do around here

Feb 2021

7: On Canoeing

Feb 2021

7: Reader Error

Feb 2021

6: The Continuum of Long Term

Feb 2021

5: Imposter Syndrome

Feb 2021

5: Listen for the music

Feb 2021

5: Notes on “The Calculus of Grit”

Feb 2021

5: 21/ Tiny Notes

Feb 2021

3: Tea Time

Feb 2021

2: Log Jams and the Creativity Faucet

Feb 2021

1: Thoughts on edits after the fact

Jan 2021

31: Low stakes

Jan 2021

30: New site, new changes

Jan 2021

21: To Kate

Jan 2021

20: The Harold

Dec 2020

31: 20/ New Directions

Dec 2020

22: Stability

Dec 2020

21: 250 Words

Dec 2020

20: 19/ Looking Past the Boundaries

Dec 2020

19: Forced constraints

Dec 2020

18: Friday Links - Dec 18, 2020

Dec 2020

16: Experience with Tools

Dec 2020

15: Cahlak

Dec 2020

14: Ludwig

Dec 2020

13: 18/ Stack the Keyboard

Dec 2020

11: Friday Links - Dec 11, 2020

Dec 2020

8: Found this in a local store today

Dec 2020

6: 17/ Somewhere in Between

Dec 2020

4: Friday Links - Dec 4, 2020

Dec 2020

2: Daily Marginalia

Nov 2020

29: Weird Experiments

Nov 2020

29: Victor Frankl and “Between Stimulus and Response“

Nov 2020

29: Zettelkasten

Nov 2020

29: 16/ Prisencolinensinainciusol

Nov 2020

27: Friday Links - Nov 27, 2020

Nov 2020

26: Metaphor Trees

Nov 2020

26: Name changes

Nov 2020

22: 15/ The 5 Writing Books That Defined My Writing Journey

Nov 2020

21: Digital Gardens and Note-taking

Nov 2020

20: A city is not a tree and WOARO

Nov 2020

20: Friday Links - Nov 20, 2020

Nov 2020

19: An exercise in values

Nov 2020

17: A Slip-box for Fiction

Nov 2020

17: Know the rule to break it

Nov 2020

15: 14/ Weekly Dispatch

Nov 2020

14: Exploration of ideas

Nov 2020

14: Creating a Satisfying and Artistic Reveal

Nov 2020

13: Recognition and action

Nov 2020

13: Friday Links - Nov 13, 2020

Nov 2020

13: If you think its ugly now

Nov 2020

11: Tales End Story Cubes Nicole Donut and Learning

Nov 2020

9: Daily Journals leading to Digital Gardens

Nov 2020

9: Engaging with my website

Nov 2020

9: Waves, Life, and Death

Nov 2020

8: The value of holding onto your links

Nov 2020

8: 13/ Daily Writing

Nov 2020

7: More reflections on David’s Daily Journal

Nov 2020

6: Friday Links - Nov 6, 2020

Nov 2020

5: Lovecraft

Nov 2020

5: Cory Doctorow and Daily Links

Nov 2020

5: Radon

Nov 2020

5: Austin Kleon

Nov 2020

1: What was Daily Marginalia?

Nov 2020

1: 12/ No more excuses

Oct 2020

25: 11/ Working over time

Oct 2020

18: 10/ Grammar Rules

Oct 2020

11: 9/ Emphatic Text

Oct 2020

4: 8/ A Beginner’s Guide to Screenwriting

Sep 2020

27: Story Gardening

Sep 2020

27: 7/ Growing your ideas

Sep 2020

20: 6/ Tools of the Trade

Sep 2020

13: 5/ Emotional Work

Sep 2020

6: 4/ Working past the edges

Aug 2020

30: 3/ Room to Roam

Aug 2020

28: Teach to Learn

Aug 2020

23: Marketing Failures

Aug 2020

23: 2/ (Un)Structure

Aug 2020

16: The Source

Aug 2020

16: 1/ A New Newsletter

Aug 2020

9: What's left behind

Aug 2020

2: A Tool Against Writer’s Block

Jul 2020

26: WOARO

Jul 2020

20: A Change of Schedule

Jul 2020

19: Why Immediate Fiction is one of the best writing books of all time

Jul 2020

12: Why we left Amazon

May 2020

26: The beginning of new things

May 2020

26: But We Do it Anyway

Feb 2018

21: Books like Beer

Apr 2017

30: Thank you—We won the SBA First Book Award

Apr 2017

17: No paparazzi

Dec 2016

9: Ask For What You Want

Dec 2016

9: Ask For What You Want

Dec 2016

5: Friends, Family, and Fans

Feb 2016

23: Party in the front, business in the back

Feb 2016

6: First Week Back

Jan 2016

13: Change

Jan 2016

6: Less Blogging. More Doing.

Dec 2015

8: The In-Betweens

Dec 2015

2: Selling Myself

Aug 2015

7: Starting Fresh

Apr 2015

28: David's Class Review - Winter 2015

Feb 2015

6: David's Favourite Books of 2014

Jan 2015

8: A Concrete Process

Dec 2014

11: A Beekeeper's Summer

Dec 2014

9: How I Schedule My Week

Dec 2014

5: Four Reflections on Craft

Jan 2014

13: Word Count and Benchmarks

Mar 2013

27: Moving again

Sep 2012

18: The Final 15

Sep 2012

4: Something New

Apr 2012

19: Hillman Curtis

Feb 2012

11: Considering New Rules for Scriptwriting

Jan 2012

25: Atul Gawande on death

Jan 2012

25: All Moved In

Jan 2012

23: Hometown winner

Jan 2012

23: On natural organization and Desire Paths

Jan 2012

16: Tom Carson talking about Steve McQueen's Shame

Jan 2012

11: New beginnings, delivered by scriptogr.am

Jan 2012

7: The Furious Explosion

Dec 2011

8: Tiny Tilt-Shift Athens

Dec 2011

5: How the Cosmonaut is Made

Dec 2011

1: Jason Fried on mornings

Dec 2011

1: The Broken Manifesto

Nov 2011

29: Little Printer

Nov 2011

8: A little of column A, B, and C

Oct 2011

30: Tiny Homes as Punk Rock

Oct 2011

29: Don’t Make it Suck: Clarity and the Reader

Oct 2011

28: On the next step after failure

Oct 2011

27: The Test and the Call

Oct 2011

22: Clean Lines of Action

Oct 2011

22: (be productive) x (do the stuff you love)

Oct 2011

22: Cause and Effect in Shots

Oct 2011

21: Writing is an action

Oct 2011

17: What makes a writer?

Oct 2011

10: Bakhtin on the Chronotope

Oct 2011

10: Dr. Peter King on the Chronotope

Oct 2011

10: What's the difference...

Oct 2011

8: Hemingway on trying

Oct 2011

7: The devil is in the details

Oct 2011

7: Writing is a response to life

Oct 2011

7: Twitter is like a river...

Oct 2011

7: To understand what I did

Oct 2011

6: On subtext

Oct 2011

6: The Eulogy for my dad, Charles Gane

Oct 2011

5: Jared Gyoerick on the moment

Oct 2011

5: A Redditor commenting on the passing of Steve Jobs

Sep 2011

27: Nirav Christophe on the moment

Sep 2011

24: Writing from reality

Sep 2011

23: Andrew Byrom on constraints

Sep 2011

20: Readings

Sep 2011

18: Eric Kim on Henri Cartier-Bresson

May 2011

27: David Jury on Rules

May 2011

27: The Sum Total of Choices and Decisions

May 2011

27: Excuse me while I go have nightmares

May 2011

25: Adam Gopnik on contraptions

May 2011

23: Mental Movies

May 2011

10: Kent Nichols on Audience

May 2011

10: Sound Familiar

May 2011

9: On anticipating the reader

May 2011

9: On Craft

May 2011

9: Jonah Lehrer on Practice

May 2011

9: On Agile Design

May 2011

9: On Interruptions

May 2011

9: On being more than the sum

May 2011

9: On Time

May 2011

9: On Art during Crisis

Apr 2011

28: On ramifications

Apr 2011

28: On theme

Apr 2011

25: Handmade Clocks by Lurearts Pottery

Apr 2011

19: Screenwriting Tip #601

Apr 2011

12: The Cosmonaut: the wide-grip stylus for touch screens

Mar 2011

26: Be the one to tell your story

Mar 2011

26: Ask yourself...

Mar 2011

26: Genius

Mar 2011

26: Richard Conniff on great ideas

Mar 2011

25: William Morris on resistance

Mar 2011

25: ReDesign Haiku

Mar 2011

24: On Competence

Mar 2011

24: Rubber Duck Outlining

Mar 2011

24: Paul Isakson on hard Work

Mar 2011

22: On Fiction and Documentaries

Mar 2011

22: Casey Donahue on Connectivity

Mar 2011

22: Hillman Curtis's “Embrace“

Mar 2011

21: Edwidge Danticat Rewrite method

Mar 2011

21: Caterina Fake on Celeste Albaret

Mar 2011

20: Wagstaff on the time to read a script

Mar 2011

17: John Hillcoat on movie budgets

Mar 2011

17: David Thompson on the culture of acting

Mar 2011

15: On how to make oatmeal

Mar 2011

15: John Sculley on Steve Jobs

Mar 2011

14: Matt Haughey on weight loss

Mar 2011

14: Study Finds Alzheimer may be misdiagnosed

Mar 2011

14: D.I.Y Planner on Sketch Journaling

Mar 2011

13: Todd Zaki Warfel on prototypes

Mar 2011

12: I am guilty of this

Mar 2011

11: Matt Might on Thesis Statement

Mar 2011

11: Jonathan Demme on expectations

Mar 2011

10: Number 2 on Glasers List

Mar 2011

10: Jeff Bridges on Starting Over

Mar 2011

10: On Having Talent

Mar 2011

9: Rob Wallin on Consumers and Producers

Mar 2011

8: An incredible urge

Mar 2011

5: Francis Ford Coppola on the Future of Filmmaking in 1990

Mar 2011

5: The Red Shovel

Mar 2011

5: Peter Jackson on Digital Filmmaking

Mar 2011

5: From a student

Mar 2011

2: Glen Hansard on the Making of Once

Mar 2011

2: Why Horror is heartbreaking

Mar 2011

1: When sports make for interesting new ideas

Feb 2011

28: Frank Darabont's description in Shawshank Redemption

Feb 2011

28: Mystery Man on writing action

Feb 2011

28: Sean Flanigan on process

Feb 2011

28: On Accident

Feb 2011

27: Writing with light

Feb 2011

26: Writing Tip

Feb 2011

23: Zack Stentz on Interaction

Jan 2011

15: Where it falls apart

Nov 2010

28: Essay Writing

Oct 2010

13: Leonard Shelby from “Memento”

Jul 2010

2: Damon Lindelof on writing the Star Trek Sequel

Jul 2010

2: Jay and Mark Duplass on being yourself

Jun 2010

10: What is your lineage

Jun 2010

10: In Preparation for Summer

Jun 2010

7: The process takes time and patience

Jun 2010

4: Monsters

May 2010

27: Underwear

May 2010

21: Go For Launch

May 2010

20: The Silent House

May 2010

19: Maxim Zhestkov

May 2010

19: The CEOs Wall

May 2010

19: The Last Ten Percent

May 2010

18: Are Excellent Presentations Hurting Us

May 2010

17: Cannonballs

May 2010

17: Ellen Lupton on Listening

Apr 2010

27: The New Social Scene

Apr 2010

24: Movies I’ve Watched Recently

Apr 2010

18: The Process Police

Apr 2010

17: Clay Shirky on Working Simply

Apr 2010

17: Tim Ferris on perfection

Apr 2010

16: Donald Miller on Story

Apr 2010

13: Exist in present continuous tense:

Apr 2010

10: Breaking Upwards

Mar 2010

28: Philip Bloom Films on the Canon

Mar 2010

27: I Had the Time

Mar 2010

24: David Mamet's Master Class Memo

Mar 2010

9: You Ain't Going to Need It

Mar 2010

9: Movies I've Watched Recently

Sep 2009

18: The Cult of Done

Sep 2009

5: The Adventure

Sep 2009

5: Jason Reitman on Directing

Aug 2009

30: Sacrifice

Aug 2009

27: Sketching with a Sharpie

Aug 2009

27: Do the Dishes

Aug 2009

25: Design Club

May 2009

14: Too Much

May 2009

1: Good Journeys

May 2009

1: Knowing Your Limits

Apr 2009

27: The Genius of Later

Apr 2009

16: Herb Kelleher on Strategic Plans

Apr 2009

15: To you, the one not writing

Apr 2009

7: Priorities and Sacrifice

Apr 2009

2: Get Out of Your Own Way

Mar 2009

27: The Most Important Step

Mar 2009

24: Remarkable Stories

Mar 2009

23: When we lose faith, we forget

Mar 2009

19: The Only Choice

Mar 2009

15: Timing

Mar 2009

10: The Right Time

Mar 2009

9: Finishing

Mar 2009

4: Sink or Swim

Mar 2009

3: Your one big huge talent

Mar 2009

2: The Greatest Fail

Feb 2009

28: "It's not there"

Feb 2009

27: Reiterate and Refine

Feb 2009

26: Write Bad Stuff

Feb 2009

25: Enjoy It

Feb 2009

16: The Love Post

Feb 2009

14: What's your reason for not writing?

Feb 2009

13: The Simple Fact

Feb 2009

12: Writing and Writing Well

Feb 2009

10: "I don't think it's working"

Feb 2009

1: Possibility

Feb 2009

1: I am telling you what you already know

Jan 2009

30: Stop Being an Idiot

Jan 2009

30: Writing Books

Jan 2009

29: Why are you writing?

Jan 2009

20: Now

Jan 2009

20: Your Next Action

Jan 2009

19: The In-Between Time

Jan 2009

9: The Void

Jan 2009

8: The Creative Habit

Jan 2009

5: Let’s Bake a Cake

Jan 2009

1: Today (part 2)

Dec 2008

31: 1 Page a day equals 3 Scripts

Dec 2008

31: The Pain of a mistake

Dec 2008

30: Screw up

Dec 2008

29: Just write

Dec 2008

24: Resisting Structure

Dec 2008

23: Quit making excuses

Dec 2008

18: Your Choice

Dec 2008

16: Breaking the Story

Dec 2008

15: The Irving

Dec 2008

11: 2 Years

Dec 2008

10: Flirting with Breaks

Dec 2008

9: The First Thing to Go

Dec 2008

8: Why are you still trying to write?

Dec 2008

5: Friday Links - December 5

Dec 2008

4: This is for when there is nothing

Dec 2008

3: Why the Writer Crossed the Road

Dec 2008

2: A Part of the Process

Dec 2008

1: Friday Links

Dec 2008

1: Life Work

Nov 2008

30: The Stakes

Nov 2008

27: 10,000 hours

Nov 2008

26: Why aren’t you writing

Nov 2008

16: The Great Debate

Sep 2008

3: More

Aug 2008

28: What is an Action?

Aug 2008

27: My definition of an act…

Aug 2008

23: Don't make it difficult

Aug 2008

13: One of those days...

Aug 2008

12: Old Projects

Aug 2008

12: Flights of the Imagination

Aug 2008

7: Results

Aug 2008

6: Bayles and Orland on Quality versus Quantity

Aug 2008

5: Architectural Change

Aug 2008

5: Let it go

Aug 2008

4: Sounds like a writer’s problem

Jul 2008

30: Scammy

Jul 2008

30: Action

Jul 2008

29: One-Eighty

Jul 2008

28: Why aren’t you doing the work

Jul 2008

28: Advice to the Amateur Writer

Jul 2008

28: The Work Week

Jul 2008

28: Don't be this beaver

Jul 2008

27: How to find the Time to Write

Jul 2008

27: Numbers

Jun 2008

25: Fill it with New Discoveries

Jun 2008

20: Every Day

Jun 2008

19: Are You Adding to the Noise?

Jun 2008

7: (This is not) The Test

Jun 2008

4: Noise and Signal

Jun 2008

3: The Rules

Jun 2008

2: Not Writing

May 2008

28: Tricks and Rules

May 2008

27: Delays

May 2008

23: 20 Handy Excuses for Any Writer to Use

May 2008

22: 0 to 120

May 2008

21: Mistakes

May 2008

20: Partnerships

May 2008

19: Fuzzy Lines

May 2008

16: My King Dilemma

May 2008

15: Connecting the Dots

May 2008

14: Dad Gone Mad

May 2008

12: Today

May 2008

12: Writing and Rewriting and Rewriting

May 2008

11: Lost objects and bubbling up

May 2008

9: Pen and Paper

May 2008

8: What is Next?

May 2008

6: Process and Structure

May 2008

1: Cleanse the Palate

Apr 2008

30: Work While Standing

Apr 2008

14: Beekeeper’s Block

Apr 2008

11: So that...

Mar 2008

10: My wife...

Feb 2008

27: The Passionate User and Buyer's Fatigue

Nov 2007

29: Joe’s Goals

Nov 2007

21: Starbucks - The Way I See It #76

Nov 2007

14: What I realized while sweetening my coffee this morning

Sep 2007

18: The 4 Day Challenge - Day ??? - Page 51

Sep 2007

12: The 4 Day Challenge: Day 2 - Page 45

Sep 2007

10: 4 Day Challenge: Day 1

Sep 2007

3: Easy

Aug 2007

31: How my wife feels about me sometimes

Aug 2007

18: Honesty

Aug 2007

16: The Movie Experience

Jul 2007

31: Look at that tree...

Jul 2007

25: Overheard from Anna this weekend

Jul 2007

25: Ignorance and my first Big Turk (*Low in Fat)

Jul 2007

17: Reminded Why I Love Buying Used Books

Jul 2007

9: Anna trying to comprehend the summer blockbuster

Jul 2007

5: Overheard at a birthday party

Jun 2007

6: Previous home owners: Can you respond to this?

May 2007

29: My solution to any problem

May 2007

29: Pete's solution

May 2007

27: Script Frenzy

May 2007

23: The Peter Elbow Challenge

May 2007

23: Everyone can know more

May 2007

21: Me playing the romantic

May 2007

18: Flagpole Sitta by Connected Ventures

May 2007

18: Anna tells it straight to Grandma

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