by Dan Jeffries | Mar 2, 2016 | Books, Writing, Enlightenment, How-Tos, Psychology |
This is an early excerpt from my forthcoming book on writing: The Fire of Creation I recently re-read the amazing book “Daily Rituals: How Artists Work” and it got me thinking about what master writers do differently than everyone else. What does it take...
by Dan Jeffries | Oct 1, 2013 | Art, Books, Drugs, Uncategorized, Writing, Education, Enlightenment, How-Tos, News, Psychology, Reviews, Satori, TV |
Sometimes being a writer can ruin stories for you because you can see endings coming a mile away. Unfortunately, I sometimes forget this is not the case for my friends and I totally killed the Breaking Bad ending for a few folks by predicting every beat. Some people...
by Dan Jeffries | Mar 24, 2013 | Art, Writing, How-Tos |
One mistake will kill a story faster than any other: not following through. Anything that goes into your story has to come to a satisfying conclusion. It’s here that most authors fail, whether they’re just starting out or they are multi-book veterans. This...
by Dan Jeffries | Mar 10, 2013 | Art, Drugs, Science, Writing, Education, Enlightenment, How-Tos, Psychology |
One day I woke up and I was sick of being sick. And that one moment changed everything. Some of what I am going to tell you here will be like telling the ancient people that the world was actually round and not flat. Just come along for a little while and listen. ...
by Dan Jeffries | Jan 7, 2013 | Uncategorized, Writing, How-Tos |
I’ve loved John Truby’s “Anatomy of a Story” ever since I first read it. It’s filled with insights I’ve never seen in about a 100 other books on the subject. However, I’ve come to realize that one of the most important...
by Dan Jeffries | Jan 3, 2013 | Art, Uncategorized, Enlightenment, How-Tos, Psychology |
One of the writers in my long term writing group sent out this video of John Cleese on the 5 Steps to getting into a head space where creativity can flourish. I liked it so much that I dug up a longer version of it for you. The whole lecture was 36 minutes and there...
