The Home of Steven Barnes Author, Teacher, Screenwriter
Tuesday, January 31, 2012  new video! Healing Emotions #8: faith
The Smallest Secret          What tactics does it use to derail
you?      Monday, January 30, 2012  First new Youtube video of
2012: Healing emotions #7  My next story, by the numbers  "That
which you persist in doing becomes easier to do. Not that the
nature of the thing itself has changed, but that your ability to
do it has increased."--Ralph Waldo Emerson  I like that quote,
and just wanted to throw it into the mix!  I've been
commissioned to create a story for MIT's annual science-fiction
anthology, a 3500 word piece to be completed by mid-April.
Sounds like fun, and because I've been concentrating on more
general principles of writing rather than specifics, I think
it's time to flip it, and allow you to see my thought patterns
when it comes to creation. When and if these thoughts intersect
with the success principles we've been covering, I'll point it
out.  The first matter of concer