Walt Disney hooked me on storytelling – at six, I walked out of The Apple Dumpling Gang wishing I could tell stories of my own. Isaac Asimov turned those daydreams into a mission – at twelve, I read Asimov on Science Fiction and realized I want to be a writer.
Writing is the most pivotal human activity! Broad brush, humans conquered fire a million years ago, tools half a million years ago, articulate speech fifty thousand years ago – but it wasn’t until we could capture our thoughts and pass them on to people far from us in space and time that humanity really started to expand across the planet.
But writing didn’t stop at counting cows and recording lineages – creative writing is the most pivotal kind of writing there is! Humans learn about the world by sharing narratives, not just of what we’ve learned, but of what we might become – so the creation of sustained, realistic, compelling narratives is one of the most important things any human can do.
So, ever since I read Asimov on Science Fiction and realized I could be a writer myself, I’ve been on a mission: to promote creative writing in all its forms, and to help you realize you can be a writer too.
Pictured: The Night of Writing Dangerously.
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Blog This
In ATL for the Conference on Robot Learning, very tired after a long day, please enjoy this picture of a Page One from Cafe Intermezzo. Actually, today was a really…
Just because you love it doesn’t mean it works
So the turkeys are out again! Love to see these fellas in the yard. But they’re not the only big ungainly birds out there. I’ve been reading a lot of…
Two at once
So! National Novel Writing Month is here again, but I haven’t finished my story for the Neurodiversiverse. So I’m working on two stories at once. Hopefully this will not become…
The Kickstarter Funded!
Hooray! Our Kickstarter for Writing Inspiration Postcards funded! This project was fascinating for me because we learned so much about what to look for in our Kickstarter campaigns: And, for…
Kickstarter for Writing Inspiration Postcards
Hey folks! Thinking Ink Press is running a Kickstarter to create postcards that inspire writers, based on Keiko O’Leary’s book Your Writing Matters. The Kickstarter just funded, but we’re approaching…
We want your stories for the NEURODIVERSIVERSE Anthology!
Hey folks, I and my coeditor Liza Olmsted are happy to announce we’re looking for stories for THE NEURODIVERSIVERSE ANTHOLOGY, which will explore how neurodivergent folks might have an advantage…
[eighty-four] minus one-oh-five: so far, so good, morning edition
So far, so good, on the new strategy of starting off with the projects, rather than the maintenance: I’ve tweeted, checked in with LinkedIn, worked on some non-fiction books, am…
[seventy-eight] minus eighty-two: tl;dr: get to the point
tl;dr: get to the point in the first line in your emails, and also in the subject. “TL;DR” is an acronym meaning “Too Long; Didn’t Read” which is used to…
[seventy] minus fifty-nine: what a beautiful evening
After truly terrific hailstorms, we were treated to a truly awesome sunset. And, got some work done on editing SPECTRAL IRON: Dakota Frost #4. FINALLY, getting the rewrite of the…
Viiictory, Thirty-Five Times
Woohoo! After being just about as behind on a Nano challenge as I have ever been and still won, I managed not only to complete 50,000 words in the month…
