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Are You a Writer? Does Writing Make You Happy as Your Day Job?
I volunteer at the San Francisco Writers Conference doing my “get sh!t done” thing. Specifically, I do logistical management of the 8-minute consultations (previously of just the editors, now of all of them). Having done this for several years with a core group of editors, I’ve become well known for my ability to perform scheduling…
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I Love Being Fierce and the Power of Ferocity
I once had a coaching assignment: come up with 100 adjectives for myself. Even as a Word Nerd, this was a stretch for me. Someone suggested that I ask others – it’s only cheating if I feel that it’s cheating. Nope, not cheating. With my list somewhere in the 70s, a friend looked at me…
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“Government Moves at the Speed of a Credenza.”
This little quip is thanks to Chuck Rosenberg, he said it on The Racheal Maddow Show a couple of years ago (at least, that’s when I heard it) and I knew I would have to do something with it. First off, it is important to understand that – as a humungous organization – nothing the…
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How to Learn to Love Your Language: Insult with Style
*** DISCLAIMER: I am not advocating being nasty or hurting people’s feelings.Just being creative when you are and might. *** One of the best reasons to have an expansive vocabulary is so that you can insult people with style. Crassly insulting someone/thing in public is generally frowned upon. For example, “you’re f-ing ugly” is a…
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Post-Apocalyptic: Current Events or Fantasy Genre?
I read large quantities of fantasy because reading for myself is an escape. I want something dramatic to happen quickly, I want magic, “mythical” creatures and/or futuristic technology, and I want the bad guy to die violently (even if reincarnated for the next book) in the end. I’m a big fan of the Paranormal and…
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I have a Brilliant Idea, Where Is the Damned Inspiration?
It is so much easier for me to blog for other people than for myself. Clients give me a topic and some points on their opinion of said topic and away I go. I can even help clients come up with topics. After that, it just happens. Would I call myself inspired? Not always. Yet…
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There is No “Out of the Box,” Why to Enjoy the Box You Think From
My initial inspiration for this blog was when a recovering engineer I know said that he “thinks out of the box” when setting up video shoots. My initial thought was, “No you don’t, you just think from a different box.” Ta Da! A blog topic is born! Shortly after that incident, I heard about a…
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Is This Project Worth Doing? Know When It’s Better to Walk Away
Sometimes a project is just not worth doing. In your business life or your life-life, there are times when it is better to walk away. In this context, I’m using “walk away” to mean that you are consciously deciding that this project is no longer worth your time and energy. It does not mean you…
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Balance in Politics (or, I Like to Run My Head into Walls)
One of the places I feel WAY too many people have lost balance is politics. I know that the attention is going to a minority group of people who like to be all obnoxious – not to the majority who may or may not sympathize with the extremists but are not so extreme. The problem…
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Creative Balance: It Does More than Just Prevent Falls
I’ve been thinking about balance a lot lately. It keeps sneaking up on me in different ways: diet, sleep, life/work, falling, or not falling. So, let’s start at the beginning. According to dictionary.com, there are 29 definitions for balance; I’ll just stick with the first one: a state of equilibrium or equipoise; equal distribution of…