http://thedoug.vox.com/library/posts/tags/writing/page/1/ Quest for Fire en Vox Mon, 05 May 2008 04:06:51 -0700 Copyright 2008 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss writing http://thedoug.vox.com/library/post/another-word.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(The Doug) http://thedoug.vox.com/library/post/another-word.html?_c=feed-rss http://thedoug.vox.com/library/post/another-word.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 05 May 2008 04:06:51 -0700 From the foreword to The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: "Douglas Adams did not enjoy writing, and he enjoyed it less as time went on. He was a bestselling, acclaimed, and much-loved novelist who had not set out to be a novelist, and w... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://thedoug.vox.com/library/post/another-word.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398a5d0be000100f48cf511c80003?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> life writing creativity http://thedoug.vox.com/library/post/soak-it-up.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(The Doug) http://thedoug.vox.com/library/post/soak-it-up.html?_c=feed-rss http://thedoug.vox.com/library/post/soak-it-up.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 02 Mar 2008 20:11:23 -0800 Bob Dylan hadn't set out to write songs. He played folk songs written by others until new songs just came out of him. Tolkein absorbed epic poems and tales and wrote his own version of them. Soak up the real, pure water--movies and stories them... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://thedoug.vox.com/library/post/soak-it-up.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398a5d0be000100f48cff51500001?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> writing creativity http://thedoug.vox.com/library/post/50s-rock-and-roll-song.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(The Doug) http://thedoug.vox.com/library/post/50s-rock-and-roll-song.html?_c=feed-rss http://thedoug.vox.com/library/post/50s-rock-and-roll-song.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 04 Jan 2008 03:00:29 -0800 Laying in bed this morning, the chorus flashed into my mind. By the time the computer booted, I had a verse. Little Betty Lou was feelin kinda blue and she din't know what to do last night She couldn't stay at home so she called me on the phone... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://thedoug.vox.com/library/post/50s-rock-and-roll-song.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398a5d0be000100e398ceb6bc0005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> music writing http://thedoug.vox.com/library/post/back-from-neptune.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(The Doug) http://thedoug.vox.com/library/post/back-from-neptune.html?_c=feed-rss http://thedoug.vox.com/library/post/back-from-neptune.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 27 Dec 2007 18:17:44 -0800 wow....it's been too long since I've written. I woke up on November 22 (Thanksgiving day) and started to work on my novel. I was just over 40,000 words at that point. I wrote a paragraph, didn't like it, deleted it. I started again, didn't lik... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://thedoug.vox.com/library/post/back-from-neptune.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398a5d0be000100e398cc4a3d0004?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> novel writing http://thedoug.vox.com/library/post/10k-run.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(The Doug) http://thedoug.vox.com/library/post/10k-run.html?_c=feed-rss http://thedoug.vox.com/library/post/10k-run.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 05 Nov 2007 07:19:29 -0800 So, 5 days into National Novel Writing Month and I've broken 10,000 words. I'm discovering a lot as I do this... First, it really helps me to have a "sort-of" outline. This story started as wordplay, which turned into a poem, which turned into ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://thedoug.vox.com/library/post/10k-run.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398a5d0be000100e398ba79870003?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> writing nanowrimo http://thedoug.vox.com/library/post/nanowrimo.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(The Doug) http://thedoug.vox.com/library/post/nanowrimo.html?_c=feed-rss http://thedoug.vox.com/library/post/nanowrimo.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 02 Nov 2007 06:18:00 -0700 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://thedoug.vox.com/library/photo/6a00e398a5d0be000100e398b94f820002.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a2.vox.com/6a00e398a5d0be000100e398b94f820002-50si" alt="NaNoWriMo" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> Last year in November I had a vision about a young warrior discovering what it means to be a man. I've been letting the idea grow in my heart over these last 12 months and the other day I decided I would rebuild my laptop (with Linux) to be a wo... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://thedoug.vox.com/library/post/nanowrimo.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398a5d0be000100e398b963e00003?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> writing nanowrimo iron dray http://thedoug.vox.com/library/post/one-thing-negatives.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(The Doug) http://thedoug.vox.com/library/post/one-thing-negatives.html?_c=feed-rss http://thedoug.vox.com/library/post/one-thing-negatives.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 24 Sep 2007 19:42:12 -0700 I am into everything. I've got tons of projects in various states of completion: websites, music projects, music practice, fiction writing, nonfiction writing, an art festival I want to run next spring, a HAM radio project I would like to kick of... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://thedoug.vox.com/library/post/one-thing-negatives.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398a5d0be000100e398ac29460004?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> music radio life writing minimalism projects