Daily Archives: June 1, 2008

Sunday night blues

It’s not like many writers get gold watches at the end of a long career, but have you ever stopped to think about how much work writers who stick with it put in? While those who specialize in manual labor might disagree, even a creative pursuit like writing can be exhausting. Trouble is, an exhausted …

June 1, 2008 – 11:44 PM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in late night writing | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Dovetailing writing efforts

Sometimes an effective strategy to get more work done is to dovetail various efforts in different ways to complete more than one assignment. For example, in the past year I’ve put a lot of time into researching Jack the Ripper and other modern serial murderers, and it’s paid off in a published article in Ripper …

June 1, 2008 – 11:38 PM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in creativity, Uncategorized | Tagged , , | Comments (2)

Getting started

I don’t often suffer from writers block. Can’t afford to. Except when it comes to more creative writing pursuits. Case in point: I have an artist who has been waiting to collaborate with me on a graphic novel idea we’ve been excited about for a couple years now, but I have yet to really bang …

June 1, 2008 – 11:30 PM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in creativity | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)