Category: Non Fiction

It is fun to be part of other people’s projects and to have your own way of doing things challenged – it often allows you to return to your own game with some new moves, and that is something I am always…

Write on the fly. Sit down, open the laptop, or the notepad, or the typewriter, and rattle something out. It’s a discipline, and it is something that you should get yourself grooved in on. I don’t think I am ever not working…

Some days equipment dictates output, especially when you have one machine that will do the task you need it to, and it refuses to perform as it should. It gets frustrating, and that is when it pays to have more than one…

People aren’t mirrors; they are projectors, and they want you to see the show that they are putting on. Observation is not a skill-set possessed or employed by everyone. Sometimes though, it is that the person expecting to be observed has done…

Who are you looking to help? In what way do you want to contribute to society? The thing is, every single writer and creative person on some level has an intent to communicate something that is important to them, and to have…

I watched a documentary on Nora Ephron the other day, and I gained a lot of respect for. I had watched some of her movies, but I have to admit that I really never knew anything about her. I have probably written…

How deeply does your own lack of confidence infect the perception of the work that you produce? Or does it only manifest in the quiet moments when you are alone? Perhaps it primarily asserts itself when you are around those you trust,…

The expression of Regular Movement that I have been involved in of late is editing and publishing rather than writing, which I am enjoying a lot. The presentation of the work in finished products and complete collections feels like it has completed…

Sometimes when you write, when you look at what you have written, and when you see how people respond, you are happy. Sometimes you look at it all and you are unhappy. Sometimes writing about that unhappiness helps to debug the problem.…

Writing and the purpose are not the easiest things to resolve sometimes. Do you write because you love to write, or do you write to be read? If it is the first then it does not matter who reads you – if…