Posts under ‘Creative Work’

The Painful Truth About Goals

For several years, I worked on a comic strip called Gay Balls of Fire (GBoF). I had a blast doing it, and it was project that allowed me to explore drawing comics for the first time.
But in 2005 I went back to college. Being both a full-time student and a part-time freelancer didn’t give me [...]

The Road to Done is Paved with Good Distractions

I’m going to work on my fiction.
That sentence summarizes one of my major writing-related goals this year. The goals, if you want to get into details, are to publish (not just write) 3 short stories and participate in this year’s NaNoWriMo, or at least just spend a month or two writing the first draft of [...]

Content Inbreeding: Why We Should Make New Connections

“I think I’ve had it.”
I said this to myself six months ago, as I was trimming my RSS subscriptions. Why do many blogs echo each other’s content? What is the difference between “5 Ways to Use Twitter for Business” and “How to Use Twitter to Promote Your Business”? More importantly, why do these two articles [...]