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
Part 2
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
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, …
Here's an idea that’s been bouncing around my head lately. It’s one I’ve always known intuitively, but like all things, it had to strike with the hammer of personal experience before it could resonate with me. This one will be a little messy, a little incoherent perhaps, more of a musing and noting down a …
It is. I'm sure of it. It's tough as hell for me to sit at the keyboard for an hour if the most typing that I've done the previous week is filling out the delivery notes for the driver on UberEats ('The bell doesn't really work so you have to press it reallllly hard. Oh …
Write well, think well
Writes Of Passage 