John Cleese on creativity
It’s easier to do trivial things that are urgent than it is to do important things that are not urgent, like thinking; and it’s also easier to do little things we know we can do than to start on big...
View ArticleThe immersive writer
There are, as everyone knows, two ways of doing a thing: one way and the other way. For any given thing worth doing, there may be an infinite number of ways to divide it into two categories; just as...
View ArticleQuality vs. quality
Edward M. Grant says, in a comment on The Passive Voice: Most readers don’t care about ‘quality’ in the English teacher sense. They just want a good story that’s told in a readable manner. I reply:...
View ArticleCreative discomfort and Star Wars
The fact is that this script feels rushed and not thought out, probably because it was rushed and not thought out. —‘Harry S. Plinkett’ (Mike Stoklasa) They’re already building sets. God help me! I’m...
View ArticleJohn Cleese on creativity
It’s easier to do trivial things that are urgent than it is to do important things that are not urgent, like thinking; and it’s also easier to do little things we know we can do than to start on big...
View ArticleThe immersive writer
There are, as everyone knows, two ways of doing a thing: one way and the other way. For any given thing worth doing, there may be an infinite number of ways to divide it into two categories; just as...
View ArticleQuality vs. quality
Edward M. Grant says, in a comment on The Passive Voice: Most readers don’t care about ‘quality’ in the English teacher sense. They just want a good story that’s told in a readable manner. I reply:...
View ArticleCreative discomfort and Star Wars
The fact is that this script feels rushed and not thought out, probably because it was rushed and not thought out. —‘Harry S. Plinkett’ (Mike Stoklasa) They’re already building sets. God help me! I’m...
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