by Matthew Rehrl MD | Writing
In the recent Write Now with Scrivener podcast episode Rashelle Isip, Professional Organizer, Ms. Isip talked about how similar writing is to pottery, how words are like clay, and how essential it is to get this clay on the potter’s wheel as the necessary first step...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Creativity, Writing
I’ve used the writing software Scrivener for several years, and I am comfortable with most of it’s basic functions, but over the last week I did the tutorial again. Why? Not to learn how to use the software—I already know that—but instead to review how I think as I...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Writing, Writing Habits
In best-selling author James Patterson’s Masterclass on writing, he states that the key to success is passion plus habit. I agree. Passion acts as the emotional energy, but habit is the discipline that allows one to harness it. I am reasonably solid in both, but if I...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Creativity, Writing
My desk totem for my writing space—my creative space—is a baby dragon hatching from an egg. It’s the one personal item I have on my desk. I selected it for a specific reason: It is a reminder that no matter how powerful an idea will become, at birth it can be fragile...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Stress, Writing
I started a new, significant writing project on Oct 1st. And now? I have “nerves.” Not quite the first day of medical school nerves—and not the first day of a 24/hour shift as an intern in a Level I Trauma Center nerves—but nerves all the same. Why? Because I know the...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Podcast, Writing
In the recent write-minded podcast episode Craft-minded series: Craft as Shaper of Story, featuring Morgan Talty the cohost, Grant Faulkner, made the following insightful comment: A quilt is a good metaphor for a collection of linked stories…Grant Faulkner Indeed he...
