On The Horizon: More Of An Update Than A Blog Post
The good news: I’m working at a paying job again. The meh news: That thing where I do nothing but work is happening.
Read More…Tag: Writing About Not Writing
The Things I Could Do Without TV: A Blog Post About Everything (Excluding Politics)
It seemed perfectly reasonable to buy a Smart TV for ourselves as a “housewarming gift” when we got this apartment. The Smart TV was soon followed by a subscription to Netflix, which was soon followed by a subscription to Comcast with On Demand. Which was soon followed by my understanding of the phrase binge watching. […]
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Isolation and Crowded Rooms: A Blog Post About Writing
There are times that success must be measured by how many new things I try in the span of a month, a year. This method of measurement extends beyond writing, but yes, for now I’m speaking of writing. If ever you’ve read my ramblings, you know that I began to write with the goal of […]
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I Have A Confession To Make
Yesterday when I said out loud in print that I was going to finish … I may have been just a wee bit high on caffeine. Yes, I have been very productive over the last five days. Incredibly so. But I have to admit that trying to edit and revise so much is beginning to […]
Read More…Squinting To See The Light At The End Of The Tunnel
Other than university assignments, a dribble of poems submitted to online venues, and a handful of stories written for another (member’s only) online venue, I have never finished an honest to goodness writing project. For more than three years now I’ve been toying with the idea of publishing a collection of my poems and nonfiction […]
Read More…This is where my head is at…
I’ve been hired to write two articles each month. My instructions are to neither write about my personal life, nor write about a specific current event. Nevertheless, the articles should be engaging, of an editorial nature, and get immediate positive feedback. Or else, I’m fired. This is what I was dreaming. I woke up frantic […]
Read More… The Retelling
During a 2014 holiday gathering with in-laws, I had the pleasure of meeting some new people—coworkers and friends of our family members. They are warm, cheerful people who really know how to talk. I enjoy talkers. Not babblers, mind you, but genuine conversationalists who graciously reveal themselves while openly accepting virtual strangers into that moment […]
Read More…The Not-Writing Process
Originally posted on BREVITY's Nonfiction Blog:
I am a terrible, terrible writer. Look at me: I have all the blessings of time, a reasonable income, an agent–and still it has taken me months to revise the last draft of my memoir and get it to the agent who has already expressed that she would…
