I’ve been doing some cleaning and organizing in my apartment recently. Among the many things I’ve tidied up was a stack of books needing attention. I put them away like a responsible adult and left out only the one I’m currently reading. […]
Patience is not a thing that comes naturally to me. As a kid and as a teenager (and even as an adult if I’m honest) I would try things, and if I wasn’t passably capable at them right away, I’d just tell […]
*I’ll be posting some websites here. These are not paid promotions, just things that have helped me in my writing and I offer them freely because I love them. Writing is a unique kind of solitude. I sit by myself […]
A few days after that fateful poem, with my brain still full of thoughts of “Should I write?” and “Do I have anything to say?” and “Am I making excuses?”, I decided to re-read Stephen King’s On Writing. I had read it […]
There I was in my early 20’s, failing to write a novel that insisted on rattling around in my brain, and doubting that I had the ability to really be a writer. Sometimes I would make another attempt at it, but self-doubt […]
This is a long story, so I’m going to break it up into two posts. I’ll post the second part on Wednesday, September 21st. I suspect anyone reading this is someone who already knows me, so you probably already know a bit […]