Tag Archives: fiction

Writing is a lonely road

Posted on March 21, 2009 by Jeff

For rea­sons I won’t bore you with, I’ve been with­draw­ing from the world a bit recently. Friends and asso­ciates are reced­ing into the back­ground and I’m focus­ing more and more on my writ­ing. This is nei­ther good nor bad, it’s just the … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Second time around

Posted on February 3, 2009 by Jeff

Now that I’ve started rewrites on my NaNoW­riMo ’06 project, I thought this might be a good time to describe my approach to fic­tion. This is by no means the only way or even the “right” way to write fic­tion, it’s just … Con­tinue read­ing →

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10,000 hours

Posted on December 26, 2008 by Jeff

In Mal­colm Gladwell’s new book, Out­liers, he makes an inter­est­ing obser­va­tion. In any rel­a­tively com­plex dis­ci­pline, it takes 10,000 hours of prac­tice to achieve mas­tery. This 10,000 hour rule seems to apply equally to music com­po­si­tion, soft­ware devel­op­ment, writ­ing, sewing, play­ing hockey, … Con­tinue read­ing →

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