A few notes about the process of writing.

Resistance to the creative process.

If you are writing anything – poetry, plays, novels, essays, blogs, short stories, scripts, then you know that resistance kicks your butt. The more you love what you are doing, the more you are called to do it, the more you invoke a force that can only be called "resistance," which is the world pushing back. There is a physics to it: inertia, force, resistance, momentum, direction.

Work is love made manifest. And thus, it changes the world. Resistance is just the action-reaction effect of the world resisting being changed. More . . .

Cool Tools - keyboards and other hardware - to help you write.

I have a fantastic keyboard – the Kinesis Advantage. It is supremely comfortable. It is available in the United States. I have three of them: one for me, one for Camille, and one under the desk as a backup. Each one costs about $300. The keyboard itself is much more important than the actual computer I use. I am continually touching the keyboard, and keyboards can potentially ruin your hands, injure them to the point that you will be unable to type. If you are a writer, it is slightly insane to use a regular keyboard. More . . .

Touch Typing tips.

If you want to be able to write a lot without injuring your body and developing a permanently slumped posture, you need to be able to look out the window, look at a photograph that inspires you, close your eyes, look around the room, and then glance at the screen every few seconds to make sure you are writing in the proper space.

You shouldn't even need to be looking at the screen constantly as you write.

Brainstorming and organization of ideas.

If you have a lot of thoughts streaming through your head when you are out on walks, in cafes, at parties, or doing yoga, check out the Moleskines. There is nothing even close. It is just a little black notebook, but they do it Italian Style. Just so much better, the cover is better, the paper is better. This is the Ferrari of little black notebooks.