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A Writer Writes… and Finishes

By Bjorn Munson | July 24, 2017July 23, 2017 by Bjorn Munson

Continuing my series of Monday posts about motivation, I wanted to share another favorite post about staying motivated by Terry Rossio from the inestimable resource that is Wordplay. It arguably builds off the tough love/cold water of The Speech two weeks ago. And while I’m going to focus on writers and motivation, I have observed (and been told) that this sort of motivation (and procrastination) is something that all creative folk encounter. But back to writers. There’s a notion…

Mark Evanier, Motivation, & “The Speech”

By Bjorn Munson | July 10, 2017July 10, 2017 by Bjorn Munson

Continuing the last few Monday posts I’ve done about motivation, I figure it’s time to add in a link to something that serves as cold water in the face: a wakeup in both ways. Mark Evanier, whose series on rejection is one I’ve referenced, has a certain speech he’s delivered on occasions to fellow writers and creatives… and occasionally he’s needed to hear it himself. Maybe you need it because it’s Monday. Perhaps you’re just wondering…

Various and Sundry Writing

Motivation for Procrastinators

By Bjorn Munson | July 3, 2017July 3, 2017 by Bjorn Munson

Since I wanted to cover motivation for the next few Mondays, as I mentioned last week, I figured it was important to bring up procrastination. One of the most entertaining articles about the subject was written by Tim Urban on his longform blogging site, Wait, But Why. In fact, the procrastination article is actually several articles, but well worth delving into. Now, I enjoy Wait, But Why quite a bit, but what if some of…

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I Guess It’s Too Late to Change the Site Name…

By Bjorn Munson | June 28, 2017January 10, 2022 by Bjorn Munson

There is a theory that placing two coat hangers in a closet produces more coat hangers through some frenzied yet illogical process of inorganic reproduction that’s best left unexamined outside of a Philip K. Dick short story. If someone suggested that placing two web articles in the Internet equivalent of a closet would produce an article about writing, I would believe them (whether or not the person suggesting it was Phillip K. Dick). This may explain the overwhelming amount of articles about…

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20 Minutes (or so) to Motivation

By Bjorn Munson | June 26, 2017June 25, 2017 by Bjorn Munson

I realized that I have a number of potential posts that relate to motivation, so for at least the next few weeks, I’ll have Motivation Mondays! Because that sounds like exactly the kind of engagement program corporate HR would institute. Anyway, I came across a pair of articles by Melissa Dahl in New York magazine. One is about how to motivate yourself to work when you don’t want to, which provides an intro to the…

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Paying the Writer

By Bjorn Munson | May 29, 2017May 26, 2017 by Bjorn Munson

After last week’s post about being a self-sufficient artist who slices, dices –and probably self-publishes– I thought it was a good idea to look at the evergreen topic of creatives not getting paid. Writers being undervalued and being underpaid is an oft-told tale — and not just because there are writers around to write about it. Writer Matt Wallace created a freelance rebuttal guide that covers about just every usual reason given to not pay writers — or…

Acting Producing Voiceover Writing

Aubrey de Grey and the Efforts to Engineer Away Aging

By Bjorn Munson | May 11, 2017May 8, 2017 by Bjorn Munson

Sean Illing has an interview in Vox with biogerontologist Aubrey de Grey about his work on tackling aging. Aubrey de Grey, whose prodigious beard is dwarfed by his prodigious research ambitions, famously believes that combating aging is an engineering problem. In other words, medical therapies can be developed and can be worked on now given our current scientific understanding of aging damage. I remember first learning about the work of Dr. de Grey when he and others set up…

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Going Faster than the Speed of Light with Imaginary Numbers

By Bjorn Munson | April 14, 2017April 14, 2017 by Bjorn Munson

For many of us writing science fiction, a common decision point is how hard or soft we should make the world(s) we’re building. A perennial area is whether we allow faster-than-light travel or not (i.e., warping, folding space, entering stargates, traveling through hyperspace, etc.). Scientist and science fiction author Catherine Asaro explains her own journey in coming up with a way to have interstellar ships that can move at the speed of narrative without willfully ignoring…

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A Writer Writes… and Finishes

Mark Evanier, Motivation, & “The Speech”

Motivation for Procrastinators

I Guess It’s Too Late to Change the Site Name…

20 Minutes (or so) to Motivation

Paying the Writer

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Aubrey de Grey and the Efforts to Engineer Away Aging

Going Faster than the Speed of Light with Imaginary Numbers

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