Dealing with the Jealousy Alarm May 27, 2021 Personal If you are like me, you get jealousy when you see others getting the success that you want. But I saw a tweet this morning that made me a find a Creation, not consumption May 20, 2021 Personal As I’ve worked on rebuilding habits and getting back to work, I’ve had to remind myself of a mantra that I picked a while ago: Creation, not Getting Older and Slower May 19, 2021 Personal One thing I’ve noticed over the past few years is I’m getting slower when running. And despite knowing this fact, I can’t change it. Trying to push Coming back to work May 18, 2021 Personal Hello. It’s been a while. I’m supposed to be doing a newsletter right now. It’s half-finished and sort of long, but while I was journalling this Old Posts Feb 27, 2021 Personal Something I’ve been wanting to do lately is bringing back some of my posts from old blogs. Long ago, I had a Tumblr, and then a Scriptogram (which Breaking the Website, Breaking the Book Feb 22, 2021 Personal I’ve spent a lot of time the past few days fixing the website. It all started a few weeks ago when I decided to try a new email provider. The one I 100 Attempts Feb 12, 2021 Personal People who try writing their first novel often complain how hard it is. Just because you write regularly, doesn’t make it any easier to write My March Challenge Feb 12, 2021 Personal At the end of March (all depending on when we finish the next Counios & Gane book), I’m doing a year-long challenge: to write a new project each Becoming a Streamer Feb 12, 2021 Personal Although I’ve been thinking about today’s main post for a while, it wasn’t until I watched this video from Ludwig, I decided to finally post it. What I want to do around here Feb 8, 2021 Personal Right now, I am working with Angie on Book 4 of our Shepherd & Wolfe series. Since early last year, I’ve been wanting to do some writing of my own, On Canoeing Feb 7, 2021 Personal When you are in a canoe, the only way you’re going to get anywhere is through paddling. But how do you paddle? If you want to go somewhere, you’re The Continuum of Long Term Feb 6, 2021 Personal As I clean out my previously read articles, I find myself being reacquainted with old ideas that caught my attention. The opening of this week’s Tea Time Feb 3, 2021 Personal Early on, while writing our first novel, the parents of our teenage hero had to sit him down and have a serious heart-to-heart. This was a scene Thoughts on edits after the fact Feb 1, 2021 Personal I’ve gone back and made corrections on this blog after I’ve posted. I do it all the time. I realize the phrasing is wrong or incorrect or a sentence Low stakes Jan 31, 2021 Personal One of the most immediate returns on the new website is that the stakes are lower. I am not as terrified to post a small, short note on here, but I New site, new changes Jan 30, 2021 Personal The site has a new look and that’s because of considerable changes behind the scenes. Ever since I set up my site back in the summer, I’ve been To Kate Jan 21, 2021 Personal Today, we’ve been married for twenty years. I’m always grateful that you tolerate me and support the writing. Your constant encouragement and Stability Dec 22, 2020 Personal Lately, I haven’t been doing the work I want to be doing. Part of it is the business of the holidays, and getting caught up on tasks now that I’m 250 Words Dec 21, 2020 Personal Recently, I’ve imposed a limit on myself while writing these blog posts; 250 words or less. This was to help me focus my writing and not tackly to Daily Marginalia Dec 2, 2020 Personal David from the future: David’s Daily Marginalia (also called David’s Daily Journal) is now defunct. See the 20/ New Directions newsletter for more Victor Frankl and “Between Stimulus and Response“ Nov 29, 2020 Personal Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our Weird Experiments Nov 29, 2020 Personal David from the future: David’s Daily Journal is now defunct. See the 20/ New Directions newsletter for more information.. As writers, we’re Zettelkasten Nov 29, 2020 Personal This is a note-taking system designed by Niklas Luhmann, a sociology professor who used it to write an astonishing 58 books and hundreds of articles Name changes Nov 26, 2020 Personal David from the future: David’s Daily Journal is now defunct. See the 20/ New Directions newsletter for more information. As I develop this practice Name changes Nov 26, 2020 Personal David from the future: David’s Daily Journal is now defunct. See the 20/ New Directions newsletter for more information. As I develop this practice Digital Gardens and Note-taking Nov 21, 2020 Personal A part of me is playing with embedding another set of notes on this website, that references core concepts and ideas. It would be a little like Know the rule to break it Nov 17, 2020 Personal A while back had this line of dialogue come my way: “We can do this the easy way or the hard way, up to you.” The line bothered me because Exploration of ideas Nov 14, 2020 Personal David from the future: David’s Daily Marginalia (also called David’s Daily Journal) is now defunct. See the 20/ New Directions newsletter for more If you think it’s ugly now… Nov 13, 2020 Personal If you look through design history and you see something that looks really radical, that’s what you’re going to be doing now. If you think that’s Waves, Life, and Death Nov 9, 2020 Personal I want to share two notes. The first I found after watching the final season of The Good Place. This isn’t a quote from the show, but a quote from Engaging with my website Nov 9, 2020 Personal The strangest thing that has started to occur is that I have started engaging with my own website more, searching for things I posted over the past Daily Journals leading to Digital Gardens Nov 9, 2020 Personal One of my hopes to do with these daily journals is to start creating my own digital garden of ideas. I have a collection of notes that I have The value of holding onto your links Nov 8, 2020 Personal David from the future: David’s Daily Journal (DDJ) is now defunct. See the 20/ New Directions newsletter for more information. I think I’ve More reflections on David’s Daily Journal Nov 7, 2020 Personal David from the future: David’s Daily Journal is now defunct. See the 20/ New Directions newsletter for more information. After yesterday’s David’s Austin Kleon Nov 5, 2020 Personal Doubling up on the notion of the blog as a place to learn was a recent article from Austin Kleon (another person who blogs regularly), this article Lovecraft Nov 5, 2020 Personal I’ve thought about this Twitter thread. Especially this one: I have a complicated relationship with Lovecraft. Today it got even more complicated. Cory Doctorow and Daily Links Nov 5, 2020 Personal Ever since I read about Roam and keeping a garden of ideas, I have been trying to figure out what that looks like for me. I don’t want to dump Radon Nov 5, 2020 Personal My wife and I never thought much about radon gas until she saw how quickly it could affect the body. And now that more of us are working from home, What was Daily Marginalia? Nov 1, 2020 Personal David from the future: David’s Daily Marginalia (also called David’s Daily Journal) is now defunct. See the 20/ New Directions newsletter for more The beginning of new things May 26, 2020 Personal I started writing this the day before the Counios and Gane monthly newsletter went out. I was nervous—this was the first time I was openly Books like Beer Feb 21, 2018 Personal While finishing up last week’s show , I learned all about Nokomis Craft Ales and I couldn’t help but relate. Nokomis Craft Ales is owned by Jeff Thank you—We won the SBA First Book Award Apr 30, 2017 Personal Last night is still a blur, but I wanted share our acceptance speech-or at least what we planned to say and what I vaguely remember we actually Thank you—We won the SBA First Book Award Apr 30, 2017 Personal Last night is still a blur, but I wanted share our acceptance speech-or at least what we planned to say and what I vaguely remember we actually No paparazzi Apr 17, 2017 Personal Our trip to Indigo Chapters Saskatoon from last weekend. Vlog by: Anna “dat boi” Gane Music by: David Cutter Music (This was previously posted on Ask For What You Want Dec 9, 2016 Personal One of the lessons I preach in scriptwriting class is that all story is about a character taking action towards their want. If your character wants Friends, Family, and Fans Dec 5, 2016 Personal Since Ang and I had our first official book reading in a store , I’ve been thinking about our audience. I think it’s fair to say that our core of Party in the front, business in the back Feb 23, 2016 Personal This weekend I began a six week arts entrepreneurship and business development course through the local arts board. As we worked on our business First Week Back Feb 6, 2016 Personal Ang and I officially started writing the first draft of our new book this week and I have some thoughts on it: Once we had the outline and ready to Change Jan 13, 2016 Personal On Monday, I had my first class and decided to open with a discussion about change. Often, I think how story is about characters managing change. Less Blogging. More Doing. Jan 6, 2016 Personal Over my self-imposed time away, I’ve been rethinking the blog and decided to reduce the amount of blog posts I write. There are a couple of reasons The In-Betweens Dec 8, 2015 Personal The past few weeks, I’ve been painting rooms in the house. As well, I did a small talk for my daughter’s class on Monday and Ang and I have been Selling Myself Dec 2, 2015 Personal Stupid fear, getting in the way… Our book is out in the world and we have it in printed form and it’s time to sell. I have a stack of business Starting Fresh Aug 7, 2015 Personal As my letters to Ang elucidated (I really think “hallucinated” would work well here too), many things have fallen by the wayside for me this last David’s Favourite Books of 2014 Feb 6, 2015 Personal So a while back, Ang and I thought it would be fun to do another comparison post, this time focusing on what each of our three favorite books were A Concrete Process Jan 8, 2015 Personal I’ve been quiet the past few weeks but now that all the festivities and food are finished, it’s time to get back to work. Writing the novel has How I Schedule My Week Dec 19, 2014 Personal I like my to do lists, but for the longest time, I kept track of the things in a mashed-up system between my journal, an online calendar, and a A Beekeeper’s Summer Dec 11, 2014 Personal My dad was a beekeeper and summer was our most hectic time. When the honey was flowing, he’d put in long days (14+ hours) working the beeyards on A Beekeeper’s Summer Dec 11, 2014 Personal My dad was a beekeeper and summer was our most hectic time. When the honey was flowing, he’d put in long days (14+ hours) working the beeyards on Moving again Mar 27, 2013 Personal This will be likely the last post here. I am moving on to a new blog engine and as the final switches are flipped, davidgane.com1 will no longer The Final 15 Sep 18, 2012 Personal For the past couple of weeks, I have been reducing my friend’s list on Facebook. I haven’t posted updates on the site for some time, becoming less Something New Sep 4, 2012 Personal I have not posted on here for a while. I have considered it, told people I would do it, but in the end nothing came of it. I am tired of the notion Hillman Curtis Apr 19, 2012 Personal I saw on Swissmiss that Hillman Curtis had passed away. I loved his films. “Embrace” was my favorite. I would show it to my students and say that Gawande on death Jan 25, 2012 Personal Hospice medical care for dying patients : The New Yorker The words you use matter. According to experts, you shouldn’t say, “I’m sorry things All Moved In Jan 25, 2012 Personal Welcome to the new place. I haven’t really gussied the place up, but to be honest, I don’t know how much I intend. I like this clean and simple On natural organization and Desire Paths Jan 23, 2012 Personal Here is something Rands in Repose written back in 2008: “I’m eagerly watching Twitter evolve and organize itself.” I like how we is waiting for Hometown winner Jan 23, 2012 Personal From Briarpatch Magazine: The top entry from the Regina area was David Gane’s “But we do it anyway,” which will be featured online. David will also Tom Carson talking about Steve McQueen’s Shame Jan 16, 2012 Personal “…dedication to his material is at once impressive and peculiarly abstract, may not even consider that reaction symptomatic of a failure to involve New beginnings, delivered by scriptogr.am Jan 11, 2012 Personal This is an experiment in something new. I have had my Tumblr blog for almost 5 years but I have always been uneasy with it. I like the cloud but I The Furious Explosion Jan 7, 2012 Personal My kids made a video this weekend that I thought I would share Tiny Tilt-Shift Athens Dec 8, 2011 Personal A short tilt-shift tour of the ancient city, by Emmanouil Papadopoulos. I love seeing places on the internet that I actually know my way around How the Cosmonaut is Made Dec 5, 2011 Personal I am very excited. Via Studio Neat Jason Fried on mornings Dec 1, 2011 Personal Things that look good at the end of the day often don’t look good the next Jason Fried Little Printer Nov 29, 2011 Personal This doesn’t come out until 2012 so it gives me time to save up my dimes. Say hello to Little Printer (BERG) via TechCrunch A little of column A, B, and C Nov 8, 2011 Personal Lately, I either take an already hard assignment and restrict it, making it harder for myself, or I take two assignments and combine them in two Tiny Homes as Punk Rock Oct 30, 2011 Personal I love this guy’s attitude! I would love to build something like this. Tiny homes as punk rock: freedom from codes & loans (by kirstendirksen) On the step after failing Oct 28, 2011 Personal You regroup and start hustling again, but it’s crucial that you believe in your own creative processes. Don’t put all your best songs on the first The Test and the Call Oct 27, 2011 Personal Moyers: What’s the significance of the trials, and tests, and ordeals of the hero? Campbell: If you want to put it in terms of intentions, the What’s the difference… Oct 10, 2011 Personal …between nature as a reflection of our personal feelings and nature as a participant in suffering (or other emotions)? Is there one? Is putting a To understand what I did. Oct 7, 2011 Personal “Why had he been so eager, during close to 50 interviews and conversations over the course of two years, to open up so much for a book when he was Twitter is like a river… Oct 7, 2011 Personal Twitter is like a river … you can step into it at any point and feel the water, bathe in it, frolic if you like … and then get out. And go back in The Eulogy for my dad, Charles Gane Oct 6, 2011 Personal My dad passed away at the start of this summer from Alzheimer’s and I did the eulogy. I’d like to thank everyone, family and friends, who have come A Redditor commenting on the passing of Steve Jobs Oct 5, 2011 Personal One man who knew what he was doing, and did it well. Asteroid Juice This is a real lovely way to remember him. Like so many others, I didn’t Andrew Byrom on constraints Sep 23, 2011 Personal Looking for constraints in a different medium or a different process and I applying to rules that I had mastered is how I developed since then. Eric Kim on Henri Cartier-Bresson Sep 18, 2011 Personal Eric Kim discusses what we can learn about photography from Henri Cartier-Bresson: Don’t only see the world as it is, look for shapes and geometry Excuse me while I go have nightmares May 27, 2011 Personal Jellyfish Lake, Palau (by Sarosh Jacob) David Jury on Rules May 27, 2011 Personal Rules can be broken — but never ignored. David Jury via Quotes on Design The Sum Total of Choices and Decisions May 27, 2011 Personal I have found that all positions men take in their beliefs are profoundly influenced by thousands of small, often imperceptible experiences that Adam Gopnik on contraptions May 25, 2011 Personal Contraptions don’t change consciousness; contraptions are part of consciousness. Adam Gopnik, How The Internet Gets Inside Us Mental Movies May 23, 2011 Personal Scientists have developed a method for reconstructing the mind’s mental movies: Via laughingsquid Sounds familiar May 10, 2011 Personal From Manton Reece During recording: Great!This will be our best show yet. Hours later: I wish I had said “X” instead of “Y”. The next day: On Art during crisis May 9, 2011 Personal What is the role of art during crisis? What does history show? Matthew Cornell On Agile Design May 9, 2011 Personal Its called agile design. A process that involves frequent adaptation, collaboration, minimal planning and face to face On getting rich May 9, 2011 Personal There’s no get rich quick option. You build it slowly, one day at a time. Matt from 37Signals On Time May 9, 2011 Personal You don’t measure time–you feel it. Rands in Repose Jonah Lehrer on practice May 9, 2011 Personal That is how you train the unconscious: not with dry recitations of the playbook, but with realistic simulations. As a result, players are able to On being more than the sum May 9, 2011 Personal If you lose track of fundamental concepts, your professional life will be dictated by artifacts, and if your professional life is dictated by On Interruptions May 9, 2011 Personal Don’t allow yourself to be driven by interruptions. Graham notes that Type-B procrastinators are “interrupt-driven.” Don’t allow yourself to be Jonah Lehrer on practice May 9, 2011 Personal That is how you train the unconscious: not with dry recitations of the playbook, but with realistic simulations. As a result, players are able to Handmade Clocks by Lurearts Pottery Apr 25, 2011 Personal The making of a ceramic clock by Pam McFadyen from Lurearts Pottery The wide-grip stylus for touch screens Apr 12, 2011 Personal (via The Cosmonaut: A Wide-Grip Stylus for Touch Screens by Dan Provost & Tom Gerhardt — Kickstarter) I did not intend to donate to two Cosmonaut Richard Conniff on great ideas Mar 26, 2011 Personal Great ideas seldom arise in the romantic way we like to imagine—the bolt from the blue, the lone genius running through the streets crying, ReDesign Haiku Mar 25, 2011 Personal find, define, design then refine the redesign do it one more time By Justin Feinstein and sent to Michael Surtees William Morris on Resistance Mar 25, 2011 Personal You can’t have art without resistance in the materials. William Morris via A Brief Message Paul Isakson on Hard Work Mar 24, 2011 Personal We can take the easy route and just do what is being asked of us; or, we can choose to go beyond the assignment and look for a bigger opportunity to Hillman Curtis’s Embrace Mar 22, 2011 Personal From Hillman Curtis I love this Casey Donahue on Connectivity Mar 22, 2011 Personal I was watching Larry Sanders earlier and noticed that the boom is constantly in the frame. It seemed kind of blatent so I figured I would ask Judd Caterina Fake on Celeste Albaret Mar 21, 2011 Personal Far from being exploited, she was being made a part of something she knew to be important. She found someone who needed her, and their small, Wagstaff on the time to read a script Mar 20, 2011 Personal If it takes more than an hour to read your feature-film script, then you’ve probably overwritten. Via WAGSTAFF I have never read a script this John Hillcoat on movie budgets Mar 17, 2011 Personal Viewers are being hardwired differently. In film, it’s harder and harder to use wide shots now. And the bigger the budget, the more closeups there David Thompson on the culture of acting Mar 17, 2011 Personal Acting is storytelling, and any child knows the delight in distinguishing a “real” story about what Dad did at work, and a fantasy—a pretend John Sculley On Steve Jobs Mar 15, 2011 Personal What makes Steve’s methodology different from everyone else’s is that he always believed the most important decisions you make are not the things On How to Make Oatmeal Mar 15, 2011 Personal If you don’t want to bother with the stove at all, you could put some rolled oats (instant not necessary) in a glass or bowl, along with a teeny D.I.Y Planner on Sketch Journaling Mar 14, 2011 Personal A sketch journal isn’t about how real an image looks or how perfect one draws an object over another. It’s about developing your perspective; Study Finds Alzheimer’s Disease may be Misdiagnosed Mar 14, 2011 Personal The study is troubling because there are several other causes of dementia in the elderly, including depression, overmedication, thyroid problems, Matt Haughey on weight loss Mar 14, 2011 Personal Another quick tip came from somewhere deep in Ask MetaFilter: if you’re presented with some large meal, rich food, or incredible looking dessert, Todd Zaki Warfel on prototypes Mar 13, 2011 Personal Via Pleasure and Pain: Sketch out your ideas. Pitch idea to room in 3 min. Room gets 2 min to critique: 2-3 strengths, 1-2 improvements to make. I am guilty of this Mar 12, 2011 Personal Due to the poor lighting I shot the photos under, I wasn’t comfortable showing others the photos that I’ve just taken on my camera because they Matt Might on the Thesis Statement Mar 11, 2011 Personal The thesis statement answers the question, “What did humanity learn as a consequence of this. Matt Might Jonathan Demme on delivering expectations Mar 11, 2011 Personal In an interview with the Parallax View, Jonathan Demme discusses Jenny Lumet’s writing for “Rachel Getting Married”: What she cares about is truth On Having Talent Mar 10, 2011 Personal Talent is not when your friends tell you they love your work, but when people who don’t like you have to admit it’s good. Via The Year in Pictures: Jeff Bridges on Starting from Zero Mar 10, 2011 Personal In acting you’ll maybe take the first take, and it’s very fresh. And you’ll say wow, that felt like real life! So now let’s recreate that, and do it Number 2 on Milton Glaser’s list “Ten Things I Have Learned” Mar 10, 2011 Personal If you have a choice never have a job. Milton Glaser Rob Wallin on Consumers and Producers Mar 9, 2011 Personal Some people are consumers by nature; they consume vast quantities of knowledge purely for learning’s sake. Others are producers; they consume An incredible urge Mar 8, 2011 Personal I have an incredible urge to say ‘fuck all this development/waiting/raising non-existent funds/latte filmmaking’ and just grab 10 people and go out Francis Ford Coppola on the Future of Filmmaking in 1990 Mar 5, 2011 Personal “To me the great hope is that now these little 8mm video recorders and stuff have come out, some… just people who normally wouldn’t make movies are The Red Shovel Mar 5, 2011 Personal Red Shovel (1992) by Leighton Pierce One of my favourite films Peter Jackson on Digital Filmmaking Mar 5, 2011 Personal “There are no excuses anymore. If people really want to make movies, they can go out and do it.” — Peter Jackson in Reuters Glen Hansard on the Making of Once Mar 2, 2011 Personal “So we made a few basic decisions, and one of the basic decisions that worked best was to keep the cameras on a long lens, so you’d have two cameras Now that is conflict Mar 2, 2011 Personal “He’s confronted with the wrenching knowledge that he might have to kill his son to save him from an even worse fate. But he hopes for something When sports make for interesting new ideas Mar 1, 2011 Personal The playmaker: The one that sets things up for others to score On Accident Feb 28, 2011 Personal “She had happened to me and not only that I had happened to her.” — Writer Darrin Strauss’s account of being the accidental cause of someone’s Sean Flanigan on process Feb 28, 2011 Personal “As long as people are in the frame I’m pretty happy. You didn’t ask but what I don’t like is big productions, I’m way too impatient to work with Writing with light Feb 27, 2011 Personal The word “photography” has its roots in Greek, roughly translating to “writing of light.” Just as text is most interesting when free of superfluous Zack Stentz on interaction Feb 23, 2011 Personal “Every interaction between two people is on some level a negotiation for status.” — Zack Stentz Dialogue is action. Characters use dialogue to get Does anyone know Jan 21, 2011 Personal …a film where an inanimate object is the main character Where it falls apart Jan 15, 2011 Personal The problem is that yes often results in massive costs that we don’t consider when we’re dreaming up all the things we want to do. Yes doesn’t push Yes, there is nothing to see on Netflix Nov 15, 2010 Personal Except: Nightmares in Red, White, and Blue, American Grindhouse White Men Can’t Jump White on Rice Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid The King of Leonard Shelby from Memento (2000) Oct 13, 2010 Personal “You can only feel details. Bits and pieces which you didn’t bother to put into words. And extreme moments you feel even if you don’t want to. Put Jay and Mark Duplass on being yourself Jul 2, 2010 Personal “It was 12 years of slamming our head up against the wall, trying to be the Coen Brothers, trying to be somebody else. You joke but that was the In Preparation for Summer Jun 10, 2010 Personal Because of the wide variation in response to jellyfish stings, it is wisest not to contact jellyfish with bare skin. Even beached and dying The process takes time and patience Jun 7, 2010 Personal Wired on the building of Toy Story 3: They thought they already had a great start on the plot for Toy Story 3, but after 20 minutes, the whole Monsters Jun 4, 2010 Personal Gareth Edwards on how he shot a monster movie on $15,000 with only two three crew and two actors: “Creativity is just being stupid enough to Underwear May 27, 2010 Personal Motionographer interview DANIELS about their video for “Underwear” by FM Belfast. All you need to make a music video are some friends and $40 of Go For Launch May 21, 2010 Personal Photographers Scott Andrews, Stan Jirman and Philip Scott Andrews condense six weeks of painstaking work into three minutes, 52 seconds The Silent House May 20, 2010 Personal /Film discusses The Silent House, a 79 minute single take horror film: The film is shot completely handheld, and the house is lit using a The Last Ten Percent May 19, 2010 Personal After reading, watching, and listening to scripts, films, and ideas over the past months, I think it was this article from Seth Godin that helped The CEO’s Wall May 19, 2010 Personal Renee Oricchio explores Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook wall: Are we to believe Mark Zuckerberg hasn’t used his own product since April 21st? The Are Excellent Presentations Hurting Us May 18, 2010 Personal Pre-TED, I used to be able to sit through a boring lecture or presentation — diligently taking notes while being sufficiently nourished by whatever Cannonball May 17, 2010 Personal is a short documentary on skateboarders search for empty pools in foreclosed homes. It was directed, produced, and shot by Drea Cooper Ellen Lupton on Listening May 17, 2010 Personal “It is easier to talk than to listen. Pay attention to your clients, your users, your readers, and your friends. Your design will get better as you The New Social Scene Apr 27, 2010 Personal This is why I love the new world we live in: Working late. Just got a Skype call from 200 people in a Chicago bar that wanted to sing happy bday to Movies I’ve Watched Recently Apr 24, 2010 Personal Cinderella Man War of the Worlds* Mighty Aphrodite Public Enemies Milk One Week Paranormal Activity Dazed and Confused* 2010: The Year We Make Tim Ferris on perfection Apr 17, 2010 Personal If you’re getting chased by a lion, you don’t need to run faster than the lion, just the people running with you… you don’t need to be perfect, you Clay Shirky on Working Simply Apr 17, 2010 Personal [I]t is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than the people who mastered the complexities of the past, who get to I am… Apr 13, 2010 Personal Exist in present continuous tense: I am writing. I am creating. I am making. I am doing it Breaking Upwards Apr 10, 2010 Personal This caught my eye. The trailer for “Breaking Upwards”. Shot on a budget of $15,000. Nice article about it in the New York Times. Found via Philip Bloom Films on the Canon Mar 28, 2010 Personal Yes, you sold me I Had the Time Mar 27, 2010 Personal From Bobulate: I recently said a flat “no” to an interesting project. The person replied, “I get it, you don’t have the time.” I had the time, yet Movies I’ve Watched Recently Mar 9, 2010 Personal Smiles of a Summer Night Sawdust and Tinsel Wings of Desire The Exterminating Angel Truly, Madly, Deeply The Intruder Nenette and Boni Strange Brew The Cult of Done Sep 18, 2009 Personal This makes me happy: The Cult of Done by Bre Prettis and Kio Stark. The poster comes from James Provost Jason Reitman on Directing Sep 5, 2009 Personal You can’t explain how to direct. It is simply instincts based on taking chances and making mistakes. Jason Reitman on The Kevin Pollack Chat Show Do the dishes Aug 27, 2009 Personal Jack Cheng writes about “when you really ‘do the dishes’ without hurrying through them, you learn things.” It reminds me of a piece of advice that I Design Club Aug 25, 2009 Personal After recently putting the Screenwriter’s Group on hiatus until the new year, I came across this article about designs clubs that “support emerging Herb Kelleher on Strategic Plans Apr 16, 2009 Personal We have a strategic plan, it’s called doing things. Herb Kelleher from Southwest Airlines, via swissmiss The Love Post Feb 16, 2009 Personal (Before you read, here is a note from David in Feb 2021.) You are in a relationship with your writing. Is it a bad one or a good one? A bad The Pain of a Mistake Dec 31, 2008 Personal It hurts. Feel it, learn from it, and make lots more of them. You become great, little by little, through constant iteration Screw up Dec 30, 2008 Personal Back when I was working in a movie theatre and learning to run the projector, I was given a great bit of advice. I was told that once I got past the Flirting with Breaks Dec 10, 2008 Personal Jonah Lehrer wrote in Music Patterns, and Sine Waves: “music is defined by its flirtation with—but not submission to—our expectations of order.” The Great Debate Nov 16, 2008 Personal There is the side that you want to be right and there is the side that you know to be right. Where those two meet, there is bliss Bayles and Orland on Quality versus Quantity Aug 6, 2008 Personal “The works of highest quality were all produced by the group being graded for quantity. It seems that while the “quantity” group was busily churning Let it go Aug 5, 2008 Personal Let go of superstitious thinking. Our passions define our self and our identity. We allow our obsessions to control us, even when it causes us Are You Adding to the Noise? Jun 19, 2008 Personal Is what you are working on worth it? Is it worth the money and the time of all those involved? Is it worth getting a babysitter, driving a car, Partnerships May 20, 2008 Personal In the article “A New Approach to Igniting and Sustaining Creativity”, Dr. Anne Paris says that recent studies suggest that ”we are helped along in Dad Gone Mad May 14, 2008 Personal “So one night, about a year ago, I decided to quit dreaming. I sat down at my keyboard and began to write.” Danny Evans from Dad Gone Mad It Work While Standing Apr 30, 2008 Personal Okay, I wasn’t going to post this but I have decided to hell with it because I like it, I agree with it, and I do it. 37signals So that… Apr 11, 2008 Personal I came across some advice from Adrian Bryant on how to get motivated to lose weight that I think you could use for writing. Ask yourself why you My wife… Mar 10, 2008 Personal can’t be found in a Google search The Passionate User and Buyer’s Fatigue Feb 27, 2008 Personal There is something that I have become aware of in the last few days: the idea of the Passionate User. I love the being a passionate user. Â There Joe’s Goals Nov 29, 2007 Personal Usually, when I post interesting web apps at the old blog, no one seems to care. So, when the opportunity came up to plug Joe’s Goals, I passed on Starbucks - The Way I See It #76 Nov 21, 2007 Personal The irony of commitment is that it’s deeply liberating - in work, in play, in love. The act frees you from the tyranny of your internal critic, What I realized while sweetening my coffee this morning Nov 14, 2007 Personal “Did you know that butter is not honey?” The 4 Day Challenge - Day ??? - Page 51 Sep 18, 2007 Personal So, what happened? How did the 4 Day Challenge disappear? It breaks down like this: Wednesday was an at home day for the family, Thursday became a The 4 Day Challenge - Day 2 - Page 45 Sep 12, 2007 Personal I fell behind in the writing yesterday. I had a 2 extra hours but wrote only 20 pages, which amounts to 3 1/3 pages per hour. I knew I was going to 4 Day Challenge - Day 1 Sep 10, 2007 Personal Today I started the 4 day challenge. My goal is to write the first draft of a 120 page script in 4 days. I ended at page 25 today. When I originally 4 Day Challenge - Day 1 Sep 10, 2007 Personal Today I started the 4 day challenge. My goal is to write the first draft of a 120 page script in 4 days. I ended at page 25 today. When I originally Easy Sep 3, 2007 Personal “Don’t worry. We’ll get another one.” — My son’s response after breaking a $20 glass at the art gallery How my wife feels about me sometimes Aug 31, 2007 Personal “Honey, your weirdness is just too early in the morning.” Honesty Aug 18, 2007 Personal Anna: I am so proud of you. David: For what? Being honest and admitting I was lying to you? Anna: Yeah, but I don’t know what you’re talking The Movie Experience Aug 16, 2007 Personal My wife and I went to the local Galaxy Theatre the other day to watch Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. I hated the book but I was really Ignorance and my first Big Turk (*Low in Fat) Jul 25, 2007 Personal Kerry: Look, their now in modules. Like little turds. Me, spitting it into the garbage. Charlene: It tastes like old socks? Me: Dipped in Overheard from Anna this weekend Jul 25, 2007 Personal Anna: I’ll hit you in the butt-stop. (Originally posted on 8secondsofawesome.com.) Reminded Why I Love Buying Used Books Jul 17, 2007 Personal Found in the first few pages of The Tao of Pooh: to S-F: hi. hello. haven’t we met before? I mean prior to the encounter in the line-up. where we Anna trying to comprehend the summer blockbuster Jul 9, 2007 Personal “People like making explosion movies?” Overheard at a birthday party Jul 5, 2007 Personal I am so totally getting cremated. They haven’t proven we don’t feel pain after death. You know, it really wouldn’t hurt my feelings if I didn’t have Sean and Leane: Can you respond to this? Jun 6, 2007 Personal Anna: The house is broken. Peter: It tipped over. Anna: That’s why we have cracks in the wall. (Originally posted on 8secondsofawesome.com.) My solution to any problem May 29, 2007 Personal Kate: Our fridge is dying. It’s now making a whirring, buzzing sound. David: Have you kicked it? (Sound of kicking) Kate: Nope. Didn’t work Pete’s solution May 29, 2007 Personal Anna’s balloon floated away. Pete came up with a plan: “I could ride the kitty and get Anna’s balloon. That’s a good idea.” (Originally posted on Everyone can know more May 23, 2007 Personal Me: I’ve got to fight for my right not to Facebook. You: Me too. It’s too annoying. Later. Me: I think that is a good thumbnail of my life. You: Me playing the romantic May 21, 2007 Personal “I feel like crap.” - my wife “You look shitty.” - me (Originally posted on 8secondsofawesome.com.) Flagpole Sitta by Connected Ventures May 18, 2007 Personal 4 minutes and 24 seconds of awesome. (Originally posted on 8secondsofawesome.com.) Anna tells it straight to Grandma May 18, 2007 Personal “You’ll be dead by the time you figure this kitchen out.” — Anna to her grandmother (Originally posted on my Tumblr called 8secondsofawesome.com.)