• Mini Book Report

    Cal Newport’s latest book, A World Without Email, hit my kindle on its release date, and, good Newportian that I am, I have pretty much flown through it. I’m not even a knowledge worker at my day job, and I found a plethora of great advice in this book. We citizens of 2021 all know…

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  • You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question. Albert Camus This week’s story is The Guest, by Albert Camus. Camus was a French philosopher, author, and journalist. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957 at age 44. He grew up in Algiers, and…

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  • “You only fail if you stop writing.” Ray Bradbury Here at the Story Factory, we value quantity over quality.  More words, more hours, more stories. The goal is 52 stories at the end of the year. So far, we are on target. Which, I know, isn’t much to say at this point of the year,…

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  • Tuesday Tool Time!

    It’s a late Tuesday Tool Time. Silly day job, getting in the way of my daily postings! But better late than never and I would not want to deprive my (checking the count) 34 followers from getting a new tool review today. Today’s Tool is the humble index card. It’s what we old people used…

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  • Monday Musings

    Next weekend, the United States will enter into what I think is one of the worst ideas ever: Daylight Savings Time. DST is where we all set our clocks ahead an hour, so instead of waking up to sunrises and birds, we wake up to dark. Supposedly, this “saves” daylight and we can use it…

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  • Seven on a Saturday

    Good Morning World! I have so much going for the day job this weekend, but here are seven Saturday links.  Chuck is a hero. Not only does he have a great blog, but he also writes Star Wars books!  http://terribleminds.com/ramble/blog/ Here is an excellent place if you are looking for a writing community. Warm, friendly…

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  • This week’s story is a translation of a work by Jorge Luis Borges. Translations fascinate me. I always wonder how much meaning is lost by changing languages. And meaning does change with new tongues because thinking changes in new languages. You know you are fluent in a new language because you start thinking in the…

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  • “You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should’ve behaved better.” -Anne Lamott Here at the Story Factory, we value quantity over quality.  More words, more hours, more stories. The goal is 52 stories at the end of the year. So far, we…

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  • Tuesday Tool Time

    It’s Tuesday, and on Tuesdays we take a peek at writing tools. Some are great, some not so much, but I am learning to be a craftsman, and the important thing about craft is the tool box. At least that is what Stephen King tells me. Today’s tools were a Christmas gift from my son.…

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  • February Monthly Review

    Here at the Story Factory, we value quantity over quality. More words, more hours, more stories. The goal is 52 stories at the end of the year. So far, we are on target. Which, I know, isn’t much to say at this point of the year, but on the other hand, this time last year,…

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