The Quiet Quotient

Write Fast, Edit Furiously

Writing isn’t so different from Fast & Furious. Both involve a lot of chaos, unexpected detours, and the occasional explosion of emotion when things go wrong. You sit at your desk, fingers on the keyboard, feeling like Vin Diesel behind the wheel of a souped-up laptop. You tell yourself, “I live my life a draft at a time.”
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The Show You Can't Watch From Home

Theaters don’t stream because being there is the point. The human body in a seat, the lights dimming, the quiet before the first word. That exchange between performer and audience is the whole show. Take the room away and you lose the pulse. Writers chase that pulse too. The blank page is our stage.Connect with me:https://www.jimhansenmedia.com/

What The Chicago Bears Can Teach Us About Writing Better Stories

Every writer has a rebuilding year. The Chicago Bears have had a few.
You start with promise, a strong draft class of ideas, a confident new voice, and for a while, you believe this might finally be the season. You are energized, organized, and ready to prove something. Then halfway through, you realize the plays you drew up in your head do not work on the field. The plot fumbles. The characters blow their routes. You stare at a blank screen like a coach watching game film, trying to figure out where it all went wrong.Connect with me:https://www.jimhansenmedia.com/

The Fine Art of Saying Nothing Well

Emails, texts, essays, even tweets, are all attempts at controlled chaos. You craft a message, reread it three times, delete half, and still worry that the meaning got lost somewhere between your brain and the recipient’s eyeballs. Words are slippery like that.Connect with me:https://www.jimhansenmedia.com/

Confessions of a Keyboard Whisperer (The Secret Life of My Sentences)

Writing, I’ve realized, is less about putting words together and more about negotiating treaties with tiny, demanding creatures. Each paragraph has its own mood swings. Some days, they’re cooperative; other days, they stage a rebellion, and I find myself deleting 800 words of pure spite.Connect with me:https://www.jimhansenmedia.com/

AI and the Creative Mind

Creativity, at its core, isn’t just about generating something new. It’s about understanding why it matters. AI can remix, refine, and reinvent, but it doesn’t carry the weight of experience, the heartbreaks, the late nights, the quiet triumphs that shape human expression. Those things aren’t data points; they’re context. And meaning depends on context.Connect with me:https://www.jimhansenmedia.com/

Letters You’ll Never Send

Every writer has them — the unsent letters, the abandoned drafts, the documents tucked into digital drawers with names like “someday” or “not ready yet.” They’re the quiet ones, the pieces written not for the world but for the weight inside us that needed to come out.Connect with me:https://www.jimhansenmedia.com/

When Writing Feels Like a Sketch That Might Flop, or Pop

Writing is a lot like Saturday Night Live. It looks spontaneous when it works, but behind every smooth moment is a week of chaos, caffeine, and cut material.Connect with me:https://www.jimhansenmedia.com/

The Writer’s Digital Dilemma

There’s a strange irony in being a writer right now. We spend our days trying to craft meaning out of words, only to release them into a world that measures meaning in likes, clicks, and impressions. Writing has become something to track, a data point, a performance. And somewhere in all that, the quiet part of writing, the part that made it sacred, started to fade.Connect with me:https://www.jimhansenmedia.com/

Attention Spans and the 10-Second Story

Short-form writing isn’t selling out. It’s adapting. You can still bring your voice and humor and truth. Just compressed. Like espresso. The challenge isn’t how long we can hold attention. It’s how deeply we can reach in the few seconds we have. If you can make someone feel something in under ten seconds, that’s not the end of storytelling. That’s proof it still matters.Connect with me:https://www.jimhansenmedia.com/