I'm a note taker, and a list maker. If I get overwhelmed with the amount of work facing me, I'll pull out my pad and scribble them down on paper. There, that's better. Now its something real and in front of me, which means it can be addressed. Maybe it can even be overcome. Everyone …
Continue reading Smash the Tasks – But You Won’t Win Any Wars that Way
Coming Back to Old Work With Fresh Eyes I’ve been working on some longer pieces lately, in particular a book that I started a couple of years ago. It started off as a simple scene with two characters, a young boy and an old librarian having a conversation in a library. Nothing of note happened, …
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
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
The new world of media has left many of the large institutions reeling, trying to find a purchase on the steep cliff face they find themselves now sliding down. But it has also left the public wanting, with a desire for real news and facts about what is going on in the world more pressing than ever.
I’ve taken up running again during this quarantine. I used to do it regularly. I played sports my whole young life, so the actual mechanics and the act of it were second nature to me. Even after I gave up sports, I used to lace up my shoes twice or three times a week and …
Continue reading The Hardest Part is the Middle – Running and Writing
He woke. There was a wave that floated through his head, and as it passed through him it filled him with ease and a sense of weightlessness. But then he woke. He saw up in bed. She was gone already. He faintly remembered the sound of the shower running, the noise of her barefoot padding …
Dear P, It’s a strange world we find ourselves in, and growing stranger by the week. So much has happened since we last met face to face, and I can only assume that it’s been the same for you. It must be the same for everyone. Life has become a blur of the kitchen table, …
Writes Of Passage 