by Matthew Rehrl MD | Writing, Writing Habits
I’ll often tweet about how our little cat. Roo, interrupts my writing—usually by standing on my keyboard or journal. But truth be told, he is a lovely writing companion. He is an ever present part of my morning writing routine from 6 am through 11 am—always...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Habit
I live in Bellevue, Washington, but my health club I go to every morning is in Redmond, Washington, about 10 miles east of me via Highway 520. I usually go quite early in the mornings, around 5 a.m. I find the world is much slower at this time. However, occasionally I...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | RAVEN, Writing Habits
One of my go-to writing coffee mugs has a raven-inspired Native American design on it (see above). It acts as a reminder for me to work on my raven-inspired work of fiction: The Raven Singularity. Is this a trick? Sure. But it does work, and that’s good enough...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Writing
Earlier this week, my wife went on a short trip and stayed at at a downtown boutique hotel in Victoria, B.C. Unfortunately, on the last evening of her stay she found her door open and ajar twice. Her room door had an electronic key without an internal physical...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Creativity
The Pareto Principle (roughly 80% of consequences come from 20% of causes: a.k.a. the 80/20 rule) is a mental model that I use for my day-to-day work. But I wonder, is it applicable to the creative aspect of writing? For example, for the craft of writing, I firmly...
