by Matthew Rehrl MD | Writing
As an aspiring wordsmith, the “wikiHow advice for becoming a blacksmith” is a great outline: Read books about the profession and art of blacksmithing.Take classes.Take more advanced metalwork classes.Start building your own blacksmithing setupJoin ABANA (Artists...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Creativity, Writing
Each morning, every morning, the first thing I do is start my coffee, go to my desk, pull out my Moleskine journal and my Mont Blanc pencil (2 items which I love to physically engage with!) and I write about two pages. (This is my variant on what Julia Cameron calls...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Writing
In a small book project which I am working on, I was researching the cholera pandemics in the 1800s, when I ran across an unfamiliar word: lazarat. Although I have access to several physical and online dictionaries, my go-to dictionary is usually The Online Oxford...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Creativity, Twitter, Writing
In the November/December 2020 Writer’s Digest interview with the writing power couple Zadie Smith and Nick Laird—both who are well known to shun social media and smartphones—Mr. Laird said: Twitter is certainly an interesting experiment, but unfortunately, it’s an...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Writing
Chop wood. Carry water. In Seth Godin’s book The Practice, he devotes a small section to the zen saying “Chop wood. Carry water.” (Shortened from “Before enlightenment: Chop Wood. Carry Water. After enlightenment: Chop wood. Carry Water.”) He was...
