Month: February 2009

  • Ordinary vs. extraordinary

    The other night as I was washing my hair and brushing my teeth and playing piano, I started thinking about being ordinary. A lot of times I get through hard or unpleasant things (like the flu, a fight with my parents, stepping in poo, etc.) by reminding myself that billions of people before me have…

  • Banish the word amateur, and give yourself insomnia

    John August, the brilliant screenwriter behind Big Fish and Go (among others), said this to a graduating class of filmmakers the other day: The one thing you won’t be is an amateur. I want you to banish that word, because you need to treat everything you do from the moment you walk out the door…

  • Are you that somebody?

    Note: New Twenty-Somewhere episode on Tuesday. Between my repetitive stress injury, my poopy puppy, and ABNA, it just didn’t happen today. # # # Today’s post is brought to you by Aaliyah, and literary agent Nathan Bransford, who asked (and answered): “Can you query if you are an unpublished novelist and your manuscript isn’t finished…