Results Results are shiny. Results are loud. Results are the big parade we all look for, the moment of relief after a goal has been accomplished, the air punch after the dream has been achieved. Results are the finished manuscript, the personal best race time, the promotion, the end of that long project you oversaw. …
Continue reading If You Can Fall In Love With The Process, You’ve Already Won
So I wrote a story this week. And it turned out quite bad. Don’t you just hate when that happens? For the last several days, or maybe even a little over 2 weeks, I have been working on a short story. I didn’t know how long it would be when it got going, but it …
Continue reading Writing Thoughts for the Week of 25th May 2020
Part 1: https://sjcwrites.home.blog/2020/05/21/running-short-story-part-1/ He arrived back to the hotel an hour later and walked into the lobby. He felt as if a weight had been lifted off of his shoulders, and a little bit light headed from the wine. Tomorrow would have its own problems, but he was determined to deal with them when they …
Part 2
The hotel was on a narrow side street, with nondescript building blocks rising on either side. It was a quiet and relaxed street that was constantly in shade, and rarely had any traffic pass down it. On one end of the street there was a row of trees that led onto the adjoining boulevard, and …
The elevator doors opened and he stepped out into the hallway, after a glance to see if anyone was out there, a slow craning forward of the neck. There were two ways out of the apartment building and he chose the back way, nodding at the security guard as he pushed against the metal handle …
Continue reading Insight: A Short Story Inspired By Raymond Carver
Is that headline pulled straight from a tabloid from the 90s you ask? Am I offering a free calendar with every response? Luckily, no. It’s an effort to gauge some interest in the following: Having you contribute a guest post to the blog. What is a guest post? Well, it’s pretty much what it says …
Continue reading Calling All Writers – Are You Interested in doing a Guest Post? Inquire Now Within
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James is an aspiring author currently based in Vancouver, BC. A fan of reading from an early age, he always dreamed of penning stories that resonated with people, and hopes to find that with this blog. He enjoys writing short stories, and is undergoing the arduous and circuitous process of attempting his first novel. In …
Writes Of Passage 