I’m lucky to be able to focus, meaning I can think steadily on an issue for hours at a time. But like everyone’s, my idea stream regularly runs dry. Here are my favorite techniques for recovery. Sleep. Most obvious: take a nap, preferably with a problem in mind, like “How will she escape?” or “Why didn’t […]
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I’m always late to the party. “Heroes” aired on television several years ago, but I’ve just discovered it. It’s a creative TV drama with a lot of the characteristics of comic books, which also happen to be important to the plot. I think the stock phrases in “Heroes” are inevitable, likely penned by writers who were chuckling as they wrote.
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Should you reveal it? Let’s say your weakness is the secret recognition that you KNOW NOTHING and HAVE NO TALENT. Yet you can’t stop inventing and imagining. What to do? You’ve seen so many make fools of themselves. You don’t want to be one of THEM. You’ve been careful to let nobody know what you really are. But
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