by Matthew Rehrl MD | Editing, Writing
On the podcast The Self Publishing Show (@SelfPubForm), I heard a great quote from Tiffany Yates Martin (@FoxPrintEd -author of Intuitive Editing) about how to approach the process of editing and writing: Write like a dog, edit like a cat. It’s similar to Hemingway’s...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Twitter, Writing
A couple of weeks ago, I went on a slight Twitter frenzy, creating about 19 tweets, most of them over a few hours on a Sunday morning. The subjects of my tweets were varied: hockey, The Mandalorian, my cat, Liverpool FC, a great writer named Terry Brooks, Katy Perry,...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Writing
In a recent podcast about writing, the author Bryan Collins (@BryanJCollins) said something both simple and insightful: The purpose of a first draft is to exist. Perhaps (but not necessarily) with the exception of life—in which the first draft is also the final...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Habit
Why do I have a coin bucket? The efficiency of effort. I never count change, pay with change, or take change with me. Instead, whenever I get home I empty my pockets and put all of my change into my coin bucket. Then, once a year, usually around December, I go to my...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Blogging
My favorite post which I wrote in October was the one I published just a few days ago called Avoiding Drama. I don’t see this as simply a task to make me more efficient (which it certainly does), but also as a task which protects my soul.
