Category: Non Fiction

Where are you at? It is probably somewhere you are very familiar with, but somewhere that you haven’t spent quite so much time in of late. I wrote this line back when we were about to go back to work after COVID.…

Writing about other projects seems a little redundant if all I am doing is laundry listing the sites, so I am going to be looking at how I network all these sites into a resource. It is nice to be past the…

The only one setting goals for you that matters is yourself. You should want to do more than the person employing you wants you to do. I mean the bare basics are fine if you want to skirt along, but if you…

I want to do more here, build a more varied collection of tones into the stories and the poems. What does that mean? Being more regular. A promise I strive not to break and then end up breaking. This is a creative…

Late night, early morning. And the push to write something. I am pushing really hard on it at the moment. I may not make it sometimes, especially with the stories lately, but I am keeping it pretty much in line. This is…

A lot of my ideas come from stupid places. But you pause, look at it again, and you wonder where you might be able to take it and knock some of the stupid out of it. Sometimes the stupid is the genius,…

Momentum is built with hard work. Hard work is built on regularity. You have to burn the candle at both ends. i think half of the stuff that I have done really has been done in the wee small hours, and by…

Do I sometimes err into a style of writing that is didactic? Surely. I know that I do it in poetry. Sometimes my fiction is a thinly veiled morality lesson. Can it be a problem? I suppose you might say that, but…

If there were not some degree of isolation in my life — some part of me that doesn’t need too many people around — would I be doing the things I do? Would I be created and out together in the way…