Daily Archives: September 23, 2009

Writing the familiar

One of the worst things I think a writer can do is limit themselves to the scope of their own experience. Many people suggest, “Write what you know,” and yet this advice is often misunderstood and misinterpreted. You see, some of the greater works of literature were about things that no one could ever reasonably …

September 23, 2009 – 1:29 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in creativity | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Write it out…

I was browsing dog supplies at PetSmart when inspiration arose within me; suddenly, out of the blue, I’d solved a motivation for one of my characters. Sometimes it can happen like that. Most of the time, however, the only real way to solve a character problem is to put one’s nose to the grindstone and …

September 23, 2009 – 1:06 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in creativity | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Fat writer blues

One thing that’s true about writing is that you don’t burn a lot of calories doing it. I’ve had a decent summer of writing, but I haven’t been very active and what that translates into is that there’s now about twenty pounds more of me. Considering there was already about sixty pounds too much of …

September 23, 2009 – 1:02 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in Rants and asides | Tagged , | Comments (0)