Posts Tagged ‘Creative Work’

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 [...]

“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 [...]

I just saw Leonard Bernstein’s Omnibus lecture on Beethoven’s Symphony no. 5 in C minor, Op. 67 (listen to it here). The lecture was very moving, to say the least. Bernstein took Beethoven’s initial rejected drafts of the symphony and played them, mistakes and all, commenting on the probable reasons why Beethoven discarded certain notes [...]