Recent Posts
Dougist.com
Return To Blog Listing
Dougist.com is mak'n a commotion in the new wired world, writing about business, finance, art, and about being a writer in New York City - our readers are those who didn’t forget that thinking people can read more than 55 words at one time, can sti
Recent Posts Tagged With 'writing'
Library Lions 2009
Well, if this video doesn't get you jazzed about being a writer, then nothing will.......
File System Infobase Manager
I've posted a complete outline of my FIle System Based Info Manager on my web site. It's the tool I use to manage all my writing, notes, reference material, bibliographies, and records. It's based on Alex Payne's architecture ideas, Noguchi Yukio's o...
Sharon Mesmer for Brooklyn Poet Laureate
Sharon Mesmer is on the short list for the next Brooklyn Poet Laureate to succeed Ken Siegelman. It really isn’t a contest is it? She has to get the nod. In a story Gene Kuntzman did for the The Brooklyn Paper he wrote: "Mesmer will get the vote...
Writing Timers, Wasting Timers
A great way to waste time not writing is to set up your system for managing writing time during the time when you should be writing. I used to write non-stop, heads-down till my body collapsed, lost in the tunnel of creativity, absorbed with characte...
Shifting Mediums
Of all the artists, we writers are uniquely beset with the chore of dealing with the piles of stuff we produce, and making sure it doesn’t get lost in some tornadoing pile of trash papers, dog eared towers, or misnamed folders, never to be seen aga...
What comes next?
In response to a question on another site… “Once you have written down the inspiration that comes to you, then what?” …I replied… Outline, reorder, revise, wrestle with syntax, realize that there is no message or point, ...
Dating DEVONThink
I was all excited. I thought I had found a solution to my vexing Journler problems. Crashes, freezes, all manner of frustrations had pushed me away from the love of my life application. Journler was the app I had been immersed in for the first year o...
Artist Stand Naked
All these writing exercises, many under time constraints - “Please do a character development using dialogue and no description for the next 12 minutes” - become like unconstrained mini-therapy, without the benefit of professional interpretation....
If Mark Twain Had a Laptop
Are we better off with all the writer’s and researcher’s tools on our PCs? I look down at my MacBook’s desktop, and staring back at me is a monster. A jumble of incomprehensible and expanding piles of electronic icons spill and shuffle around ...
Notebooks
Just like Joan Didion, my notebooks start with an entry prompted by real life. I jot down a few observations, a description of something that passed by, a taste, a smell, a pretty girl. Often it’s a note about an event, because I tend to be a descr...
After the reading
Amanda, a rising star of the New York literary world and my occasional lover, is not pleased that I read my poem, Endless Visibility, to her friends, a group of emerging literati. In fact she is rather upset. I’m sorry Amanda, I asked them a ques...
Endless Visibility
As reported in Touching History by Lynn Spenser, Major Billy Hutchison of the 121st Fighter Squadron, DC Air National Guard was the only military jet between United 93 and the populated city of Washington DC on September 11, 2001. His jet was diverte...
