More on Fractal’s “RPM” triangle. The EMOTIONAL JUICE of your idealized identity, purpose, and destiny is what will power your actions day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year, through all the ups and downs. So create an IDENTITY that is the person who could build…

“In the end it’s not about how many breaths you took. In the end it’s about the moments that took your breath away.” ― Volksweisheitheit #### So the RPM time/energy management system is in the house. I woke up, did my Morning Ritual, made tea, and sat at the computer…

“I want to be a writer.” THAT was a miserable excuse for an adult goal! #### With your indulgence, I will continue “pressure testing” the “Fractal” I’ve built for Jason. That’s: Three Centers (Body, Emotions, Mind) Three Gates (True, Kind, Useful) and Three Questions (What, Why, How) ## Want to…

I Loved Ray Bradbury…and Now I get to say WHY! Saturday I’ll be in Indianapolis at the Madame CJ Walker theater, lecturing on Ray Bradbury. I am so grateful to be able to do this, and I’ll be speaking of ten points of contact I had with him over the…

“And so I have to live. Because we live for more than just ourselves, Most of the time we live for others, keep putting one foot before the other, left and right, left and right, so that walking becomes a habit, just like breathing. Ina n out, left and right.” …

“Perfectionism is procrastination masquerading as quality control.” That’s mine, and related to people who have a standard so high it paralyzes them. “Perfection is no standard at all.” — Brendon Burchard. The notion here is that because nothing can ever be flawlessly performed, if you guaranteeing that you AT THE…

I remember thirty years ago talking to Leo and Diane Dillon, the wonderful husband-wife art team, friends of Harlan. I had lunch with them in Greenwich Village many years ago. I thought I wanted to talk to them about my first wife’s artistic ambitions. I was wrong. In the presence…

“We breathe when we’re wrong, we breathe when we’re right, we breathe even as we slip off the ledge toward an early grave. It cannot be undone. So I breathe.” -Tahereh Mafi. ### We got to the beach house yesterday. Jason was very cooperative the whole time, happy and a…

I mentored an Analog contest winner yesterday. It was GREAT fun. I taught some of the same principles we’ll teach in the SECRETS OF HOLLYWOOD SCREENWRITERS workshop coming up on September 23 (www.hollywoodloophole.com). I gave her the six-link “Lifewriting Chain” to success, testing her reactions, watching her face and listening…