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The Writer's Life

The writer in question being me. I have a life, despite the million-and-one projects on the burn. Occasionally I even tell people about it.

Mental arms race
How to find answers for things
Building momentum
Techniques for Not-Really-Scheduling - peaks and lulls
How to get things done without a schedule
Two years and counting
Discipline for artists
Learning projects
Respecting your work; creating your workspace
Something to think about
Nix on Nanowrimo
Forget 'evil'. Google: Don't be stupid.
Using music to improve your writing
Writing across media
Learning language
Routines and rewards
Thwarted by technology
Motivational posters
Book porn
Confessions of a bookaholic
Google announce e-reader
Blog down time
SubTracker - progress update
Discovering the process
Writing brain - one thing at a time
Streamlining my life
How to get your own bucket
The remarkable power of your ears
Restrictions can work for you
A writing bucket of your very own
Working in groups
Writing tools and tips from other people
NaNoWriMo and other things
Amazon rankings, PubIt, price morality and making great bad guys
Putting deadlines to use
self-pubbing ebooks now easier and apparently lucrative, and other news
How do writers enjoy movies?
E publishing, self publishing and Stephen King's 10-minute advice.
The day job
Pratchett makes a sword! Oh, there's other news, too.
Space to play
Ideas, execution and robot skin
Time to think and tinker
Aussiecon 4
More digital news, intellectual property and AussieCon
Knowing how to celebrate
New blogs, destroying your own universe, and some funnies
Dorchester goes digital, thoughts on piracy and questions to ask yourself
Amazon's killer kindle blow, and grow your own superstardom.
What keeps you writing?
"Smart" tech
Writing software review: yWriter
How do you tell if it's a novel?
Ramblings around the internet
The urge to scorn the popular
They're just doing this to taunt me.
Reading and recursion
I know it looks messy, but...
How to fail at publishing
War of the ereaders
Organisers Anonymous
MFAs and Creative Writing degrees
The author myth
You can't run on fumes forever
Regular service will return shortly
Know how you work
Things that can be found
Sometimes what the story really needs is to be left alone.
Writing groups - it's not all about them, either.
Permission not to write
With a little help from my friends - writing groups
Why entertainment isn't a waste of time
Apple's wanna-be Kindle-killer
The writer's scourge: Act 2
Procrastination busters - the ten minute rule
Goal momentum - keeping the work going
Goals for 2010
Inaugural blog post