Tag Archives: dream
When You Know Your Purpose, Everything Changes
“When we turn pro, everything becomes simple. Our aim centers on the ordering of our days in such a way that we overcome the fears that have paralyzed us in the past.” – Steven Pressfield, Turning Pro I’ve been reading Turning Pro, the new book by Steven Pressfield, and sequel to The War of Art […]
Writer’s Nightmares
I’ve been working on a lot of content for y’all, I promise. (Sad that in the English language we have to resort to sounding like Cletus the Slack-Jawed Yokel just to be able to address people in the second-person plural.) So yeah, I’ve been having a ho down (spelling?!) with my work. But, if you can […]
The Self-Sabotaging Word “Aspiring”
What do you dream of doing? Writing? Filmmaking? Painting? Theatre? Well stop dreaming, and just do it. That’s the message of Jeff Goin’s You Are a Writer (So Start Acting Like One). If you haven’t head of Jeff Goins, I recommend checking out his blog. He’s got a lot of cool stuff on there and a free […]
Why Climb The Creative Ladder When You Can Own It?
To my fellow artists and creative people (who usually find “self-help” books boring), I ask of you… “Why climb the creative ladder when you can own the creative ladder?” Robert Kiyosaki in Rich Dad Poor Dad wrote “Why climb the ladder when you can own the ladder?” Or something like that. I’m not gonna go […]
The Continued Adventures of Boba Fett and the Importance of Never Giving Up On Your Dreams
When I was maybe 14 or 15, my brother and I began to write a novel about the continued adventures of the bounty hunter Boba Fett. I had grown up loving Star Wars (in fact, I was born less than a month after the first Star Wars movie came out.) I can’t remember who had […]
