Mental Purgatory

Yesterday, I attended the expansion celebrations at the Queen Afua Wellness Center in Brooklyn, New York. I’ve never heard of Queen Afua, but Erykah Badu was supposed to be there so I went, press badge in hand. Walking around with a small Nikon compact camera and my IRiver for recording, I was the odd man [...]

At work my boss suggested/asked/recommended that I read a book called The Pragmatic Programmer. While the book is great and deals with a lot of interesting lessons in computer programming, I decided to write about it here for its applicability in your every day life.
One of the concepts that struck me most was this idea [...]

So I just wanted to let everyone know I’ve moved the story idea posts completely to Try Creative Writing. While I love doing them, and love sharing them with everyone else, I felt like they were cluttering up the blog too much and taking away from it’s original purpose.
While I will keep you guys updated [...]

Okay, so neither of these pieces of this phase will change your bank account from 50$ to $1 million but it’s all about steps, and these two aspects here are great. Both of these pieces, the 401k and the Stock Purchase Plans are about taking advantage of offerings your company provides you to make the [...]

Okay, so this general idea is done all the time unfortunately. Heck, the Diary of Anne Frank was hugely successful and it used this concept. Likewise, Perks of Being a Wallflower, a book I often promote on here, uses a concept similar to this. However, the reason for the many books that use the journal [...]

This idea is reminiscent of Marley and Me, or at least, what I perceive the book version of Marley and Me to be like. The idea is to write a story as newspaper pieces each day for a year. In Marley and Me, the news reporter writes a piece each day, largely about his dog. [...]

Anna Karenina comes from the land of Russian literature, and what’s more, from Leo Tolstoy. Tolstoy, known for War and Peace, has a habit of saying a lot, and Anna Karenina is no exception, weighing in at 864 pages long.
With that in mind, we might as well get through the negatives of this book. First, [...]

This story idea was spawned with the latest piece I’ve been working on, though it’s something I’ve been thinking about for a long time. When you look back on your relationships with people, they’re so rich in powerful scenes and memories that help you define what it is that makes that relationship special. Powerful scenes… [...]

My writing professor at school was very big on lists. Make lists of your ideas, list the things you want to write when you run out of time to write the rest of your story, or even just write a story of the lists. The thing is, you can reveal a lot through a list [...]

This story is a spin-off from story #4, meaning that I could do both stories and build up a universe surrounding this tyrranical society. However, while in the same society, this story takes place after the fall of the empire. This story centers around a scientist who was involved in the genetic engineering plans and [...]