Tag: ideas
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How Fear Blocks Action
We’ve all got it: a list of things we hope to do. In some ways it’s a great thing to have. We can carry around this list and it gives us hope of a future brighter than today. When we finally write that novel, or make that movie, or start that business or painting, then […]
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Of Ideas and Word Counts
MousyBoyWithGlasses (CC-ASA) I think that every person at every time has only so many words they can spend on an idea before they end up repeating themselves. A quick example: consider the stereotypical young male bachelor. When he’s single, the number of words he can or will spend on the topic of romantic love probably […]
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On Writer’s Block, Procrastination, and a Solution
Writer’s block is a funny thing. When you don’t have it, you tend to wonder what everyone is so upset about. When you do have it you wonder how you ever managed to write anything. There are certainly a number of possible causes for the disease. The most likely, if you want my opinion, is […]
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Changing the World with Ideas
I was raised Catholic. And, for a time, I convinced myself that I was a saint. Not just any saint, I went further than that. I convinced myself that I was the Christian Messiah. I was the second-coming of Christ. To the extent that I understood such things as the immaculate conception and virgin-birth, they […]