For a long time, writing had become less than a chore to me. A chore at least has a purpose, an end goal. If I'm taking on the chore of doing dishes, by Christ, there will be some clean dishes at the end of the day. Writing wasn't even that to me. The odds that … Continue reading A Return
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It Is The End, My Friends
Hello, I've reached the end of my blogging for 30 days spectacular. I'm pretty happy about that. I found out that it's really hard to think of thirty interesting blog entries sequentially. But it has kickstarted my interest in writing and has gotten some gears turning again that I thought would be forever rusted up. … Continue reading It Is The End, My Friends
Write It Out
Hello, I'm not a plotter. I don't like planning out my stories at all. It robs me of the thrill of discovery. I sometimes start a story having no idea where it's going to go, but that's what makes writing exciting to me. I can go on the same journey as someone reading the story … Continue reading Write It Out
Writing Update
Hello, I'm nearing the end of my experiment to write in this blog every day and I'm looking forward to that last day. There's only so much I can say, day in and day out and I'm sure there are days when y'all could tell I was checked out, especially on those 11:00pm postings. But … Continue reading Writing Update
An Update
Hello, It's been seventeen days since I start to write continuously, both in this blog and off the blog and I don't know how this is impacting me at this point. On the one hand, I've written more in this short two weeks than I did in the last six months prior to starting this … Continue reading An Update
Public Writer
Hello, I've never been someone who likes to write in public. The thought of setting up my laptop in the local coffee shop, which will most likely be a Starbucks, and proceeding to tap away makes me cringe inwardly. But that's what I'm doing this morning. I have time to spare this morning, time to … Continue reading Public Writer
Ideas
Hello Again, I've never been someone that believes in writer's block. There's always something you can be working on, always something you can be making. Granted, I say that as someone that has never needed to survive by writing on a deadline. I can always flit back and forth from one story to another and … Continue reading Ideas
An Update
Hello Again, Whenever I do one of these insane writing challenges, I feel the need to beat myself up about not meeting the self imposed rules that are, often, brutally unfair. That being said, I am going to say that as a result of this challenge (one blog entry, one five hundred word story per … Continue reading An Update
Writing On Writing About Writing for a Writer
Hello Again, I've been going back and forth on what I want this blog to be and that's just given me plenty of great excuses to not write anything. And, if there's anything I excel at, it's creating excuses. In an attempt to make sure that I write something, anything, in this space, I'm freeing … Continue reading Writing On Writing About Writing for a Writer
31 Days of Spoooktacular: The Little Things
During the Halloween season, people reach for the big scares: movies, haunted theme park rides, horror conventions, creepy costumes. And, I think, they neglect the little details that permeate our lives that are truly unsettling. Take the following spam comment I got on one of my older entries: "How should I tell him the bad … Continue reading 31 Days of Spoooktacular: The Little Things
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