Old School Truism: Nothing keeps a real writer from writing.
New School Fact: Millennials will always find a way.
(To keep from writing? Or to make sure we write. Waitaminnit! Hey–!)
Category: Productivity
Avoiding Stress the Way the Ancients Did
In the words of Cato the Younger: “Uh-oh…”
Stoicism for Modern Stresses: 5 Lessons From Cato – by Rob Goodman & Jimmy Soni
Julius Caesar wanted to end him. George Washington wanted to be him. And for two thousand years, he was a singular subject of plays, poetry, and paintings, with admirers as diverse as Benjamin Franklin, the poet Dante, and the Stoic emperor Marcus Aurelius.
Yet, for all that, you’ve probably never heard of him…
munchman: The Writer of GROUNDHOG DAY Tells How He Does It
Danny Rubin, whose credits include GROUNDHOG DAY and HEAR NO EVIL, has a book out called How to Write Groundhog Day. Inasmuch as I love the film, I’m hoping the book is great. Here’s a helpful sample:
How to Write Groundhog Day: 10 Rules for Screenwriters – by Danny Rubin
Last summer another list of writing rules popped up, this one in a Sunday edition of The New York Times.
The comfort of rules can be very important to a writer’s motivation because telling them the truth (there are no rules and nobody knows anything) is for most people not useful and a little intimidating.
