What makes you do the things that you do? What makes you reach for that cookie when you are on a diet? Or play that game when you should be sleeping? What really motivates us to act? What motivates someone to murder? Recently, I finished watching the Netflix docuseries "Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron …
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The Idea Machine
Where do you get your ideas?Simple, I have a machine in my house built from spare parts found on the side of the road and at yard sales that I crank up whenever I am in need of an idea. The crank is the most important part. The ones from Victrola's are the best.
The Writer and Balance
The days have grown dramatically shorter in my mountain home. The sun was setting as we walked the dogs. The Autumn Equinox is upon us and it at this time of year that I think of what I will banish my from my life. The idea is to banish something in the fall that holds …
Three Movie Weekend
Three movies, one weekend and one exhausted writer. Strangely, it was the exhaustion which enabled the movie watching along with Amazon Prime. Movie 1: Late Night staring Emma Thompson, Mindy Kaling and John Lithgow. This is the movie that started the spree. Emmy Thompson is on fire as the failing talk show, Katherine Newbury. …
Writing Sans Clothing
I write naked. I write semi-clothed and sometimes just in my little black robe. The point is I write. Sometimes I write with wine although this can be dangerous as if the muse doesn't kick in quickly I end up with an empty bottle of wine and only a few dozen words to show for …
No Spoons, Today.
I ran out of spoons on Monday when forces combined to make my normal day, mentally three times longer than usual. There were some physical challenges as well. All of which resulted in this writer feeling like she had been run over by a semi. A semi that backed up and did it again and …
Work-Life Balance vs. Dreams
Tomorrow, I will go back to the day job for the first time in sixty-four days. Summer is over for me in less than twelve hours. Nearly half that time traveling and writing; it has been wonderful. Next Spring if the editing gods are kind I will have two new pieces ready for publication. But, my …
Writer – Do Thy Thing
Two weeks in France and I was writing everyday. I am twenty pages and a few plot wholes away from a finished draft of The Devil's Due.
I wrote well when I was away from my writing desk.
Writer on the go
This morning, I woke up in a strange room in a city that neighbors the one I grew up in. As my traveling companion slept fitfully in his bed, I moved through the room making coffee, showering, reading and doing my morning exercises. The nervousness and tears that had marked my first day of travel …
Friday Night Writing
Some quick thoughts on writing and getting where you want to be in life.
Lucinda Rose 