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2021

April

23/ Stretched thin and moving forward

March

The Rule of Threes, Conflict, and Starting Your Story 22/ Blogging is my Hobby More than One Want

February

Old Posts Why is this particular character on this journey? Breaking the Website, Breaking the Book You’ll get through it 100 Attempts My March Challenge Becoming a Streamer Make your story (and marketing) rhyme What I want to do around here On Canoeing Reader Error The Continuum of Long Term Listen for the music Imposter Syndrome 21/ Tiny Notes Notes on “The Calculus of Grit” Tea Time Log Jams and the Creativity Faucet Thoughts on edits after the fact

January

Low stakes New site, new changes Story Maps To Kate The Harold

2020

December

20/ New Directions Stability 250 Words 19/ Looking Past the Boundaries Forced constraints Friday Links - Dec 18, 2020 Experience with Tools Cahlak Ludwig 18/ Stack the Keyboard Friday Links - Dec 11, 2020 Found this in a local store today 17/ Somewhere in Between Friday Links - Dec 4, 2020 Daily Marginalia

November

Zettelkasten Weird Experiments Victor Frankl and “Between Stimulus and Response“ 16/ Prisencolinensinainciusol Friday Links - Nov 27, 2020 Name changes Metaphor Trees 15/ The 5 Writing Books That Defined My Writing Journey Digital Gardens and Note-taking Friday Links - Nov 20, 2020 A city is not a tree and WOARO An exercise in values Know the rule to break it A Slip-box for Fiction 14/ Weekly Dispatch - Nov 15, 2020 Exploration of ideas Creating a Satisfying and Artistic Reveal Recognition and action If you think it’s ugly now… Friday Links - Nov 13, 2020 Tales End, Story Cubes, Nicole Donut, and Learning Waves, Life, and Death Engaging with my website Daily Journals leading to Digital Gardens The value of holding onto your links 13/ Daily Writing More reflections on David’s Daily Journal Friday Links - Nov 6, 2020 Radon Lovecraft Cory Doctorow and Daily Links Austin Kleon What was Daily Marginalia? 12/ No more excuses

October

11/ Working over time 10/ Grammar Rules 9/ Emphatic Text 8/ A Beginner’s Guide to Screenwriting

September

Story Gardening 7/ Growing your ideas 6/ Tools of the Trade 5/ Emotional Work 4/ Working past the edges

August

Teach to Learn 3/ Room to Roam Marketing Failures 2/ (Un)Structure The Source 1/ A New Newsletter What’s left behind A Tool Against Writer’s Block

July

WOARO Why Immediate Fiction is one of the best writing books of all time Why we left Amazon

May

The beginning of new things

2018

February

Books like Beer

2017

April

Thank you—We won the SBA First Book Award Thank you—We won the SBA First Book Award No paparazzi

2016

December

Ask For What You Want Friends, Family, and Fans

February

Party in the front, business in the back First Week Back

January

Change Less Blogging. More Doing.

2015

December

The In-Betweens Selling Myself

August

Starting Fresh

April

David’s Class Review - Winter 2015

February

David’s Favourite Books of 2014

January

A Concrete Process

2014

December

How I Schedule My Week A Beekeeper’s Summer Four Reflections on Craft

January

Word Count and Benchmarks

2013

March

Moving again

2012

September

The Final 15 Something New

April

Hillman Curtis

February

Considering New Rules for Scriptwriting Considering New Rules for Scriptwriting

January

Gawande on death All Moved In Hometown winner On natural organization and Desire Paths Tom Carson talking about Steve McQueen’s Shame New beginnings, delivered by scriptogr.am The Furious Explosion

2011

December

Tiny Tilt-Shift Athens How the Cosmonaut is Made The Broken Manifesto Jason Fried on mornings

November

Little Printer A little of column A, B, and C

October

September

Nirav Christophe on the moment Writing from reality Andrew Byrom on constraints Readings Eric Kim on Henri Cartier-Bresson

May

The Sum Total of Choices and Decisions Excuse me while I go have nightmares David Jury on Rules Adam Gopnik on contraptions Mental Movies Sounds familiar Kent Nichols on audience On Time On Interruptions On getting rich On craft On being more than the sum On Art during crisis On Agile Design Jonah Lehrer on practice On anticipating the reader

April

On theme On ramifications Handmade Clocks by Lurearts Pottery Screenwriting Tip #601 The wide-grip stylus for touch screens

March

Richard Conniff on great ideas Genius Be the one to tell your story. Ask yourself… William Morris on Resistance ReDesign Haiku Rubber Duck Outlining Paul Isakson on Hard Work On Competence On Fiction and Documentaries Hillman Curtis’s Embrace Casey Donahue on Connectivity On Edwidge Danticat’s rewrite method Caterina Fake on Celeste Albaret Wagstaff on the time to read a script John Hillcoat on movie budgets David Thompson on the culture of acting On How to Make Oatmeal John Sculley On Steve Jobs Study Finds Alzheimer’s Disease may be Misdiagnosed D.I.Y Planner on Sketch Journaling Matt Haughey on weight loss Todd Zaki Warfel on prototypes I am guilty of this Matt Might on the Thesis Statement Jonathan Demme on delivering expectations On Having Talent Number 2 on Milton Glaser’s list “Ten Things I Have Learned” Jeff Bridges on Starting from Zero Rob Wallin on Consumers and Producers An incredible urge The Red Shovel Peter Jackson on Digital Filmmaking From a Student Francis Ford Coppola on the Future of Filmmaking in 1990 Now that is conflict Glen Hansard on the Making of Once When sports make for interesting new ideas

February

Frank Darabont’s description in Shawshank Redemption Sean Flanigan on process Mystery Man on writing action On Accident Writing with light Writing Tip Zack Stentz on interaction

January

Does anyone know Where it falls apart

2010

November

Essay Writing Yes, there is nothing to see on Netflix

October

Leonard Shelby from Memento (2000)

July

Damon Lindelof on writing the Star Trek Sequel Jay and Mark Duplass on being yourself

June

What is your lineage? In Preparation for Summer The process takes time and patience Monsters

May

Underwear Go For Launch The Silent House The Last Ten Percent The CEO’s Wall Maxim Zhestkov Are Excellent Presentations Hurting Us Ellen Lupton on Listening Cannonball

April

The New Social Scene Movies I’ve Watched Recently The Process Police Clay Shirky on Working Simply Tim Ferris on perfection Donald Miller on Story I am… Breaking Upwards

March

Philip Bloom Films on the Canon I Had the Time David Mamet’s Master Class Memo You Ain’t Going to Need It Movies I’ve Watched Recently The power of small groups

2009

September

The Cult of Done The Adventure Jason Reitman on Directing

August

Sacrifice Sketching with a Sharpie Do the dishes Design Club 2. Confidently start work.

May

Too Much Knowing Your Limits Good Journeys

April

The Genius of Later Herb Kelleher on Strategic Plans To you, the one not writing Priorities and Sacrafice Get Out of Your Own Way

March

The Most Important Step Remarkable Stories When we lose faith, we forget The Only Choice Timing The Right Time Finishing Sink or Swim Your one big, huge talent The Greatest Fail

February

“It’s not there” Reiterate and Refine Write Bad Stuff Enjoy It The Love Post What’s your reason for not writing? The Simple Fact Writing and Writing Well “I don’t think it’s working” Possibility I am telling you what you already know

January

Writing Books Stop Being an Idiot Why are you writing? Your Next Action Now The In-Between Time The Void The Creative Habit Let’s Bake a Cake Today (part 2)

2008

December

The Pain of a Mistake 1 Page equals 3 Scripts Screw up Just Write Resisting Structure Quit Making Excuses Your Choice Breaking the Story The Irving 2 Years Flirting with Breaks The First Thing to Go Why are you still trying to write? Friday Links - December 5, 2008 This is for when there is nothing Why the Writer Crossed the Road A Part of the Process Life Work Friday Links

November

The Stakes 10,000 Hours Why aren’t you writing? The Great Debate

September

More

August

What is an Action? My Definition of an Act… Don’t Make it Difficult One of those days… Old Projects Flights of the Imagination Results Bayles and Orland on Quality versus Quantity Let it go Architectural Change Sounds like a writer’s problem

July

Scammy Action One-Eighty Why Aren’t you Doing the Work The Work Week Don’t Be this Beaver Advice to the Amateur Writer Numbers How to Find the Time to Write

June

Fill it with Discoveries Every Day Are You Adding to the Noise? (This is not) The Test Noise and Signal The Rules Not Writing

May

Tricks and Rules Delays 20 Handy Excuses for Any Writer to Use 0 to 120 Mistakes Partnerships Fuzzy Lines My King Dilemma Connecting the Dots Dad Gone Mad Writing, and Rewriting, and Rewriting Today Bubbling Up Pen and Paper What is Next Process and Structure Cleanse the Palate

April

Work While Standing Picking the Scene Beekeeper’s Block So that…

March

My wife…

February

The Passionate User and Buyer’s Fatigue

2007

November

Joe’s Goals Starbucks - The Way I See It #76 What I realized while sweetening my coffee this morning

September

The 4 Day Challenge - Day ??? - Page 51 The 4 Day Challenge - Day 2 - Page 45 4 Day Challenge - Day 1 Easy

August

How my wife feels about me sometimes Honesty The Movie Experience

July

Look at that tree… Overheard from Anna this weekend Ignorance and my first Big Turk (*Low in Fat) Reminded Why I Love Buying Used Books Anna trying to comprehend the summer blockbuster Overheard at a birthday party

June

Sean and Leane: Can you respond to this?

May

Pete’s solution My solution to any problem Script Frenzy The Peter Elbow Challenge Everyone can know more Me playing the romantic Flagpole Sitta by Connected Ventures Anna tells it straight to Grandma