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Time To Write
http://timetowrite.blogs.com
Tips and techniques for writers of novels, non-fiction books, articles, scripts, and poems. Also advice on protecting your work, generating ideas, mind-mapping, and selling your writing.
Recent Posts
John Irving on the qualities of a writer
On the bigthink.com site, there’s a long interview with novelist John Irving (“The World According to Garp,” “The Cider House Rules.” Here’s a clip about some early signs that he would be a writer—can you relate?...
The strange habits of three successful writers
It’s always interesting to find out how successful authors do what they do. Here are a few examples: Dan Brown works seven days a week, starting at 4am. He uses an hourglass as a timer and every hour gets up and does some push-ups, sit-u...
Four strategies for writing success in the future
Keeping an eye on what is happening to newspapers and magazines is important even for writers who don’t write for those media. In strategy+business, Matthew Ego, Harry Hawkes and Greg Springs have written a long article called “Reinventing Print...
How it can help your writing to change your lens (Creative Eye series)
For one of my workshops I’m coming up with some approaches that I think can add rocket fuel to your creativity, and I will be sharing them here as well. This one is about seeing things in a fresh way. When taking a picture, a photogra...
Problems as opportunities
Yesterday I put up a video of a talk I encouraged you to view, about creativity and entrepreneurship. In case you don't have time (or an instant review if you did), here are some key points: Tina Seelig of the Stanford Technology V...
A brilliant talk on creativity and entrepreneurship
This is a brilliant one hour talk on creativity and entrepreneurship, by Tina Seelig, Executive Director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program. Entertaining, encouraging, informative--worth your time! ...
