Category: Non Fiction

As a writer, isn’t some aspect of your mental health tied to the act of writing? There are people who write, and there are writers. There are people who are alive, and there are people who live. If I do not write…

Sometimes things break, and they do so silently, and if you have a billion moving pieces you might miss it. I write all over the damned place, because I have a lot of different stories I am looking to tell. So, today…

Sometimes getting in gear on the weekend – which represents the largest swathe of time that I have to write, can be somewhat problematic. Weekends are also the point in the week when it is easiest for me to do things like…

I structure most of my longform pieces around the idea that they will take me 52 weeks to complete them. The novels – which are short novels – with a 1000 words to each week would be a good length, and the…

The early days of the year are a limnal space – the ideational matrix not quite solidified yet, into a picture of what it means. Can it be stacked in a bundle of sticks that all burn the same? One hopes that…

The year end reset is a switch that we flip today. We got out into nature today, and me and my wife got to hang out and have some fun. Florida has some beautiful parks and it was interesting seeing those who…

Being acknowledged for something obviously isn’t the be-all and end-all of things, because if there were no joy in the activity why would you do it? – but that is not to say that telling someone that you enjoy something they do…

I love it when I hit a roll, and the idea that I am working on now is for the roll to keep going and to never stop. It sometimes seem unreal that you could become something akin to a perpetual motion…

You have be in love with something to write. Even if you are only in love with writing, that will work. If you have a wife you love, and animals you love, that changes the quality of the writing, and I don’t…

That is the first question you need to ask when you sit down to write, and if you can’t answer it in the affirmative, then you aren’t going to get very far. Why? Because writing without communication as its backbone isn’t anything.…