Stephan Miller

Writing




Blog posts in the writing category

The One Who Writes

There are a lot of tools to help you to start a habit. Just remember that your goal is building the habit, not using the tool.

Don't Make a Habit a Crutch

There are a lot of tools to help you to start a habit. Just remember that your goal is building the habit, not using the tool.

So I Wrote a Book on the Phalcon Framework

I have to admit I change my mind a lot. I started out rolling my own sites in PHP and MySql. Then I spent a lot of time with Wordpress and various Ecommerce ...

The $4000 Notebook

Image by See-ming Lee ??? SML via Flickr Reason Not to Blog: Feeling Boxed In

What I Do Sundays

Image by Vidiot via Flickr I started writing this post a few weeks ago on a Sunday. I was just getting to a weekly rhythm and something broke, so that S...

Just Write An Email

I wrote this article a long time ago, before I had a blog. It references Outlook, so it had to be a while ago. I haven’t used Outlook in a long time. </p&...

How to Write Fast - From Various Sources

Cover via Amazon I think it is quite ironic that I am writing this post while trying to avoid writing a post. I know why I searched for the topic in Google a...

Internet Writing Practice

Writing Down the Bones If you have not read this book, do so now. It was written by Natalie Goldberg. It will change your attitude about writing and is my ba...

Writing Every Day

I do work in a lot of different areas on teh internets. And each job I do has different effects on my mind. I have to enter that job's mind mode for a short ...

Getting Away From Monkey Mind

The books and web pages I read affect me a lot. I use them as tools sometimes. If I read a book on productivity, I become more productive while I am reading ...

Rereading A Good Book

This weekend I started reading The Bombast Transcripts by Christopher Locke again. You can find most of the contents of that book here. Entropy Gradient Reve...

Average, Normal, and Regular

Right now, by all accounts, I should have 1.2 kids, be $10,000 in credit card debt, and have had two major car accidents by now. But not one of these is rig...

Getting Unstuck

I have said many times before that I don't get writer's block. No, I just have days where anything I type turns magically into crap right before my eyes and ...

A Writing Reading List

I don't know if it's me, but a lot of bloggers out there seem to assume that writing is just sitting at your computer and typing. Get your ideas in order and...

Keeping a Notebook

And I don't mean keeping a laptop. I meaning having a place to write things down to get them out of your mind. I have written in a notebook for almost twenty...

Pen to the Paper

This post was written last night in a three ring notebook with a gel pen. My favorite was once a fountain pen because they write faster. And I may be going b...