Writing – Page 7 – JEFF GARVIN

Creativity On The Daily

May 19, 2015
Video, Writing

HOW DO A WRITER, a father/database programmer, a web designer, a payroll ops manager, and an actor/marketing consultant fit creativity into their daily lives? My friend, actor/producer Curtis Andersen, invited me to be on his web panel, Creativity on the Daily, about how full-time artists and hobbyists...

Star Wars vs. Catcher in the Rye

April 24, 2015
Fiction, Personal, Writing

LAST WEEKEND, IN AN ATTEMPT to get organized, I bought a file cabinet and went through all the boxes in my garage. Instead of becoming organized, however, I spent Saturday assembling the most complex piece of Ikea furniture known to man, and them I spent Sunday reading through all the writing stuff...

How and Why I Started Writing

February 16, 2015
Personal, Writing

HOW I scrawled my first lyric—a future hit entitled “Dart Heart”—into my Hello Kitty Diary at age eight-and-a-half. There were photos of me at a younger age that foretold my becoming a musician (see above), but I think “Dart Hart” was the first evidence that I might end up a writer. At eight-and-a-half,...

‘SYMPTOMS’ TO BE PUBLISHED IN SPANISH WORLDWIDE

February 2, 2015
Fiction, News, Writing

I’M EXCITED TO REPORT that V&R Editoras, a fast-growing, mid-sized Latin American publisher, has acquired the rights to publish my debut novel SYMPTOMS OF BEING HUMAN in Spanish worldwide. You may remember this post from November, in which I announced that V&R had aquired the rights...

On Doubt, Fear, and Being a Professional Artist

November 29, 2014
Personal, Writing

ON GOOD DAYS AND BAD DAYS During a writing day, I inevitably hit a point of diminishing returns. A point where any work I do will likely have to be redone the next day–because I’m too mentally, spiritually, or intellectually tired to continue doing good work. Usually it happens around 3PM–but...

3 Uncommon Sense Tips for Winning #NaNoWriMo

November 24, 2014
Fiction, Writing

There’s only one week left of National Novel Writing Month (aka NaNoWriMo)—a crazy artistic marathon challenge in which writers commit to writing a 50,000 word novel, from initial idea to finished first draft manuscript, in thirty days. For those of you who are participating in NaNoWriMo, this...