by Brian Gardner | Mar 15, 2023 | Writing Update
One of the hardest things to do is to avoid Shiny Object Syndrome through a process I like to call Ideation Filtering. We’ll get into the details below, but staying on task is as much a job of being your own brain’s traffic cop as anything else. This...
by Brian Gardner | Mar 7, 2023 | Writing Update
I missed another blog week and I’m really sorry about that. I have been super busy just getting it done. All of it. Personal, work, business, creative, family, the whole nine yards. I talked last week about grindstone persistence; these last two weeks,...
by Brian Gardner | Feb 21, 2023 | Writing Update
Have you ever heard the phrase “keep your nose to the grindstone?” That’s been our February. We have fought through grindstone persistence to get trough a crazy amount of work and play. We’ve had so many events, just got back from NYC, had some...
by Brian Gardner | Feb 7, 2023 | Writing Update
The older I get, the more I find I want to acquire knowledge. Some of it is obviously beyond me…okay, most of it. That doesn’t stop me from being a lifetime learner. Whether it’s in my own fields or general knowledge, I want to learn more and more....
by Brian Gardner | Jan 31, 2023 | Writing Update
I had an epiphany on Twitter last night. I saw a question about editing traps and responded honestly. Once I had typed and tweeted my response, I realized just how true it is: prose isn’t regimented, it’s jazz. We’ll get into what I mean by that...
