by Matthew Rehrl MD | Photography, Writing
In photography, if you want to find your voice then you focus on mastering the tools of the craft. This takes time, patience, curiosity and volume. I suspect the same goes for writing.
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Writing
I like to divide my creative life into four domains: creativity, marketing, developing relationships, and thinking. Usually, in a given week, my percentages look like this: Create: 10%Marketing: 30%Relationships: 5%Thinking: 55% (Unfortunately, by Marketing, I am...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Health, Writing
One retrospective benefit of my progressive hip arthritis and the first few weeks of my subsequent hip replacement? It was a good reminder of what it felt like to be physically vulnerable—something I haven’t had to contend with since my “being-bullied-days” of junior...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Writing
Tools matter. Tools matter for writing. And one of the most important writing tools? The keyboard. A 50,000-word novel, if you consider spacing, editing and rewriting requires at least one-million keystrokes. That’s a lot of finger-work! For example, I recently...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Digital Platforms, Writing
I am beginning to get a handle on what I want to do for a platform change. I am moving towards the idea of changing my daily blog to a weekly blog, going much deeper into tools for physician-writers. This may involve a weekly podcast, concurrent LinkedIn posts, and...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Writing
In mountain climbing, are false summits. These are the ridges that seem to rise out of nowhere at the end of the climb which the climber falsely believes to be the actual summit, only to be disappointed when. after reaching it, to realize the hard part—the crux of the...
