by Bill McCurry | Apr 29, 2013 | Confidence, Creativity, Depression, Humor, Marriage, Relationships, Writing
Writing brings out the mental illness in me. My wife can testify to this. I’m in control of my behavior almost all the time. As Mark Twain said, “For business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.” If I wake up to find my brain mired like a mammoth in...
by Bill McCurry | Apr 2, 2013 | Acting, Entertainment, Humor, Life, Marriage, Television, Writing
It’s not really that I don’t love you. I have reasons for ignoring you and this blog over the past couple of weeks. They are bad reasons, but then people often have bad reasons for not doing things. Bad reasons for not exercising, bad reasons for not saving money, bad...
by Bill McCurry | Jun 8, 2012 | Creativity, Humor, Writing
Some of my friends tell me I think too much when I write posts for my blog. I can’t say they’re wrong, because I haven’t tried to just whip off a post. So, here goes. I’ve started working on another novel. Smart writers convinced me that I need to stop editing the two...
by Bill McCurry | May 16, 2012 | Creativity, Entertainment, Humor, Writing
I will infiltrate the DFW Writers Conference this weekend. I hope to make important contacts, find people who tell me how great my work is, learn writing and publishing secrets, and meet a an agent who thinks my novel is so marketable they’ll run over orphans while...
by Bill McCurry | Aug 5, 2011 | Confidence, Creativity, Humor, Life, Writing
When I decided to become a writer, I received a license to whine. More correctly, I gave myself a license to aggravate everyone I know with my whining. They can’t shut me up, unless they want to beat me to death with my laptop and toss my body in a ditch. I think they...
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