tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88887127816473070822011-04-22T00:15:08.330+02:00Writeorical QuestionsThis is a blog about my attempts to write a book, and other hopefully charming self-destructive behaviour.JohnnyBlisshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03854425424044755871noreply@blogger.comBlogger41100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8888712781647307082.post-89096009543486086972008-07-10T13:22:00.009+02:002008-07-10T14:27:32.459+02:00Streamlined.This morning, on a whim, I delved deep into my digital archive and found my earliest radio pilots, from two years ago - these I listened to, alongside recent radio shows I've been doing now, and came to some rather surprising conclusions.1, the things I used to hate about my performance when I'd just recorded the pilot two years ago .. I can no longer hear. There are still some flaws, but they'reJohnnyBlisshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03854425424044755871noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8888712781647307082.post-645765509084666902008-07-01T17:38:00.003+02:002008-07-02T14:55:26.332+02:00It was a dark and stormy night...Well, last week it was anyway. A couple of times.If you think I'm going to take this as an opportunity to describe how thunderstorms can boost creativity, then YOU'RE WRONG, because I won't, and in my case, they don't.But a couple observations nevertheless.1.) Living in California, I got conditioned to there never being any weather or seasons whatsoever, (San Francisco --> fog <--> Everywhere JohnnyBlisshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03854425424044755871noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8888712781647307082.post-24785613127556596272008-06-27T13:39:00.003+02:002008-06-27T14:00:14.540+02:00A special sneak preview of my book.Check this, homies. If you want to create a word cloud from your own writing, this internet resource called Wordle will do it for you in 20 seconds flat, highlighting words which are used more often.In my case, the word was "Room".Hmmm....Special thanks to Lynn Viehl @ Paperback Writer for pointing this out.JohnnyBlisshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03854425424044755871noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8888712781647307082.post-56150244160614878812008-06-17T12:25:00.005+02:002008-06-18T01:39:02.352+02:00Can Mourning Encourage Productivity?I started last week as usual......continuing to think about starting a blog, procrastinating on the book I am theoretically writing, reading motivational Writer Forums to encourage me to write (as an excuse not to do so), and, you know. Feeling vaguely guilty. Truth is, I'm quite comfortable with my life, working extremely part-time as a radio host, telling people about the book I'm theoreticallyJohnnyBlisshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03854425424044755871noreply@blogger.com1