Category Archives: Just a thought

What the Internet Has Done for Writing

Full of Artless Jealousy

Signal vs. Noise, one of the blogs I read on technology, productivity, and creativity, posted an article recently about being motivated in a constructive and positive way by jealousy. “Productive jealousy,” is an interesting theory, but I wonder if it’s really that common in practice. Like the article’s author, I have always been plagued with [...]

Writing About Music for Writing

My friend Jeff has been talking about music, and particularly music while writing. Despite the fact that he brought up the scourge of John Denver, I felt compelled to respond. Truth be told, I haven’t been listening to much music lately. What? A black guy not espousing the joys of music to write to? What [...]