Writing

Naomi wants to play a game. I’m in. Here’s how it starts:
“So what do you actually do for a living?”
Well, in any other medium, I’d pull out my pompous sweater and begin ranting about how I’m a new breed of man and “what I do” encompasses something so large, not even I can put words […]

It’s been quite a few years since the term disruptive innovation was coined by Clayton M. Christensen in his book The Innovator’s Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth - a sequel to the highly regarded business publication The Innovator’s Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business, where he first presented […]

There is no new thing under the sun…
Let us marinate for a second on a quote that has been around for centuries and very often regurgitated in some form or another by many people, including U.S. presidents:
“That thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which […]

I recently received a very nice email from a reader asking me, among other things, a few questions about writing. I’m not sure if he wants me to use his real name so I’ve decided to call him Michelangelo (after my favorite turtle).
Here is a bit of what he wrote:
“I’m doing a challenge this January […]

…that’s one scary banana.
Dangling, Hanging or Unattached Participles - A Writers Worst Nightmare
This is a surprisingly common and extremely flagrant grammatical mistake that has infected the pages of blogs, websites and just about every article containing the written word. I know I’ve made the mistake plenty of times. I also know it makes you look […]

64,523 words. That is, 64,523 words of nonsensical, contradictory, inflated gibberish. But, mission accomplished.
Emotional Stages:
Week one - Fuck this, I don’t have to do this anyway. Who the hell writes anything good in thirty days when 50,000 words is the target. I’ll just do it next year when I’ve practiced a bit more, besides, I […]