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I’ll get straight to the point: if you’re serious about writing, you’re going to have to treat it like a job. 
Not a very sexy intro, is it?  It doesn’t exactly scream “million dollar success!”  It doesn’t promise instant gratification.  It doesn’t offer to make you rich overnight, or show you how to write a bestseller [...]

Throw this in your character creation file.  It’s another adapted game called “Smoke.”  In the game, you pick a famous person.  You say, “if I were smoke in this character’s pipe, what kind of smoke would I be?”  It’s fun, and breaks you out of your normal mindset.
Try these:
1) If your character was a credit [...]

When I was a kid, I believed in everything … I accepted it all with equal enthusiasm. I ate that stuff up. I read Frank Edwards and Erich von Daniken and Robert Blum. Nobody was wrong. All of it was true.

Writing from the Little Mind doesn’t work. It’s like trying to run a Ferrari F430 on a 9-volt flashlight battery. You won’t even get out of the driveway.

Even if you love your work, sometimes you just don’t feel like doing it.
Especially on a gloomy Monday.

Sherman, set the wayback machine for October, 2006. Destination: a website called Voidgunner for Writers. Six months later, it became www.write-your-short-story.com. Now it’s a blog called “Rex the Wonder Scribe.” Why? Two reasons. First, I didn’t want to limit myself to writing about short fiction.  That’s what I’ve published. But I’ve also written four novels, four screenplays, and several hundred songs.  I make a [...]

Keep your eyes open. You might find success where you least expect it.