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24/ Where I’ve been 23/ Stretched thin and moving forward 22/ Blogging is my Hobby 21/ Tiny Notes 20/ New Directions 19/ Looking Past the Boundaries Friday Links - Dec 18, 2020 18/ Stack the Keyboard Friday Links - Dec 11, 2020 17/ Somewhere in Between Friday Links - Dec 4, 2020 16/ Prisencolinensinainciusol Friday Links - Nov 27, 2020 15/ The 5 Writing Books That Defined My Writing Journey Friday Links - Nov 20, 2020 14/ Weekly Dispatch - Nov 15, 2020 Friday Links - Nov 13, 2020 13/ Daily Writing Friday Links - Nov 6, 2020 12/ No more excuses 11/ Working over time 10/ Grammar Rules 9/ Emphatic Text 8/ A Beginner’s Guide to Screenwriting 7/ Growing your ideas 6/ Tools of the Trade 5/ Emotional Work 4/ Working past the edges 3/ Room to Roam 2/ (Un)Structure 1/ A New Newsletter Friday Links - December 5, 2008 Friday Links
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Dealing with the Jealousy Alarm Creation, not consumption Getting Older and Slower Coming back to work Old Posts Breaking the Website, Breaking the Book 100 Attempts My March Challenge Becoming a Streamer What I want to do around here On Canoeing The Continuum of Long Term Tea Time Thoughts on edits after the fact Low stakes New site, new changes To Kate Stability 250 Words Daily Marginalia Zettelkasten Weird Experiments Victor Frankl and “Between Stimulus and Response“ Name changes Name changes Digital Gardens and Note-taking Know the rule to break it Exploration of ideas If you think it’s ugly now… Daily Journals leading to Digital Gardens Engaging with my website Waves, Life, and Death The value of holding onto your links More reflections on David’s Daily Journal Radon Cory Doctorow and Daily Links Lovecraft Austin Kleon What was Daily Marginalia? The beginning of new things Books like Beer Thank you—We won the SBA First Book Award Thank you—We won the SBA First Book Award No paparazzi Ask For What You Want Friends, Family, and Fans Party in the front, business in the back First Week Back Change Less Blogging. More Doing. The In-Betweens Selling Myself Starting Fresh David’s Favourite Books of 2014 A Concrete Process How I Schedule My Week A Beekeeper’s Summer A Beekeeper’s Summer Moving again The Final 15 Something New Hillman Curtis All Moved In Gawande on death Hometown winner On natural organization and Desire Paths Tom Carson talking about Steve McQueen’s Shame New beginnings, delivered by scriptogr.am The Furious Explosion Tiny Tilt-Shift Athens How the Cosmonaut is Made Jason Fried on mornings Little Printer A little of column A, B, and C Tiny Homes as Punk Rock On the step after failing The Test and the Call What’s the difference… Twitter is like a river… To understand what I did. The Eulogy for my dad, Charles Gane A Redditor commenting on the passing of Steve Jobs Andrew Byrom on constraints Eric Kim on Henri Cartier-Bresson The Sum Total of Choices and Decisions David Jury on Rules Excuse me while I go have nightmares Adam Gopnik on contraptions Mental Movies Sounds familiar Jonah Lehrer on practice On Interruptions On being more than the sum Jonah Lehrer on practice On Time On getting rich On Agile Design On Art during crisis Handmade Clocks by Lurearts Pottery The wide-grip stylus for touch screens Richard Conniff on great ideas William Morris on Resistance ReDesign Haiku Paul Isakson on Hard Work Casey Donahue on Connectivity Hillman Curtis’s Embrace Caterina Fake on Celeste Albaret Wagstaff on the time to read a script David Thompson on the culture of acting John Hillcoat on movie budgets On How to Make Oatmeal John Sculley On Steve Jobs Matt Haughey on weight loss Study Finds Alzheimer’s Disease may be Misdiagnosed D.I.Y Planner on Sketch Journaling Todd Zaki Warfel on prototypes I am guilty of this Jonathan Demme on delivering expectations Matt Might on the Thesis Statement Number 2 on Milton Glaser’s list “Ten Things I Have Learned” Jeff Bridges on Starting from Zero On Having Talent Rob Wallin on Consumers and Producers An incredible urge Peter Jackson on Digital Filmmaking The Red Shovel Francis Ford Coppola on the Future of Filmmaking in 1990 Now that is conflict Glen Hansard on the Making of Once When sports make for interesting new ideas Sean Flanigan on process On Accident Writing with light Zack Stentz on interaction Does anyone know Where it falls apart Yes, there is nothing to see on Netflix Leonard Shelby from Memento (2000) Jay and Mark Duplass on being yourself In Preparation for Summer The process takes time and patience Monsters Underwear Go For Launch The Silent House The CEO’s Wall The Last Ten Percent Are Excellent Presentations Hurting Us Ellen Lupton on Listening Cannonball The New Social Scene Movies I’ve Watched Recently Clay Shirky on Working Simply Tim Ferris on perfection I am… Breaking Upwards Philip Bloom Films on the Canon I Had the Time Movies I’ve Watched Recently The Cult of Done Jason Reitman on Directing Do the dishes Design Club Herb Kelleher on Strategic Plans The Love Post The Pain of a Mistake Screw up Flirting with Breaks The Great Debate Bayles and Orland on Quality versus Quantity Let it go Are You Adding to the Noise? Partnerships Dad Gone Mad Work While Standing So that… My wife… The Passionate User and Buyer’s Fatigue Joe’s Goals Starbucks - The Way I See It #76 What I realized while sweetening my coffee this morning The 4 Day Challenge - Day ??? - Page 51 The 4 Day Challenge - Day 2 - Page 45 4 Day Challenge - Day 1 4 Day Challenge - Day 1 Easy How my wife feels about me sometimes Honesty The Movie Experience Overheard from Anna this weekend Ignorance and my first Big Turk (*Low in Fat) Reminded Why I Love Buying Used Books Anna trying to comprehend the summer blockbuster Overheard at a birthday party Sean and Leane: Can you respond to this? Pete’s solution My solution to any problem Everyone can know more Me playing the romantic Anna tells it straight to Grandma Flagpole Sitta by Connected Ventures
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Imposter Syndrome Experience with Tools Tales End, Story Cubes, Nicole Donut, and Learning Teach to Learn David’s Class Review - Winter 2015 The Broken Manifesto (be productive) x (do the stuff you love) The Cause and Effect in Shots From a Student The Process Police The power of small groups
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Why the new stories lately? The Rule of Threes, Conflict, and Starting Your Story More than One Want Why is this particular character on this journey? Story Maps You’ll get through it Make your story (and marketing) rhyme Reader Error Listen for the music Notes on “The Calculus of Grit” Log Jams and the Creativity Faucet The Harold Forced constraints Ludwig Found this in a local store today Metaphor Trees A city is not a tree and WOARO An exercise in values A Slip-box for Fiction Creating a Satisfying and Artistic Reveal Recognition and action Story Gardening Marketing Failures The Source What’s left behind A Tool Against Writer’s Block WOARO Why Immediate Fiction is one of the best writing books of all time Why we left Amazon Four Reflections on Craft Word Count and Benchmarks Considering New Rules for Scriptwriting Don’t Make it Suck: Clarity and the Reader Clean lines of action Writing is an action What makes a writer? Bakhtin on the Chronotope Dr. Peter King on the Chronotope Hemingway on trying The devil is in the details Writing is a response to life On subtext Jared Gyoerick on the moment Nirav Christophe on the moment Writing from reality Readings Kent Nichols on audience On craft On anticipating the reader On ramifications On theme Screenwriting Tip #601 Ask yourself… Be the one to tell your story. Genius On Competence Rubber Duck Outlining On Fiction and Documentaries On Edwidge Danticat’s rewrite method Frank Darabont’s description in Shawshank Redemption Mystery Man on writing action Writing Tip Essay Writing Damon Lindelof on writing the Star Trek Sequel What is your lineage? Maxim Zhestkov Donald Miller on Story David Mamet’s Master Class Memo You Ain’t Going to Need It The Adventure Sacrifice Sketching with a Sharpie 2. Confidently start work. Too Much Good Journeys Knowing Your Limits The Genius of Later To you, the one not writing Priorities and Sacrafice Get Out of Your Own Way The Most Important Step Remarkable Stories When we lose faith, we forget The Only Choice Timing The Right Time Finishing Sink or Swim Your one big, huge talent The Greatest Fail “It’s not there” Reiterate and Refine Write Bad Stuff Enjoy It What’s your reason for not writing? The Simple Fact Writing and Writing Well “I don’t think it’s working” I am telling you what you already know Possibility Writing Books Stop Being an Idiot Stop Being an Idiot Why are you writing? Now Your Next Action The In-Between Time The Void The Creative Habit Let’s Bake a Cake Today (part 2) 1 Page equals 3 Scripts Just Write Resisting Structure Quit Making Excuses Your Choice Breaking the Story The Irving 2 Years The First Thing to Go Why are you still trying to write? This is for when there is nothing Why the Writer Crossed the Road A Part of the Process Life Work The Stakes 10,000 Hours Why aren’t you writing? More What is an Action? My Definition of an Act… Don’t Make it Difficult One of those days… Flights of the Imagination Old Projects Results Architectural Change Sounds like a writer’s problem Action Scammy One-Eighty The Work Week Don’t Be this Beaver Why Aren’t you Doing the Work Advice to the Amateur Writer Numbers How to Find the Time to Write Fill it with Discoveries Every Day (This is not) The Test Noise and Signal The Rules Not Writing Tricks and Rules Delays 20 Handy Excuses for Any Writer to Use 0 to 120 Mistakes Fuzzy Lines My King Dilemma Connecting the Dots Today Writing, and Rewriting, and Rewriting Bubbling Up Pen and Paper What is Next Process and Structure Cleanse the Palate Picking the Scene Beekeeper’s Block Look at that tree… Script Frenzy The Peter Elbow Challenge