Tag: non-fiction

I know nothing about cross-training – I really don’t. But I was sitting here and I was thinking about how all the people who are creative and training in one discipline should be able to take the skills that they learn in…

It is interesting watching something you watched a lot of before, but didn’t quite get to the end of, when you start to approach the end. It is especially hard when it is something that has been consistently good for most of…

The digital memory is a hardwired failure of lack of differentiation between the important and the trivial. Things that you mentally backgrounded years ago suddenly get chopped up a sprinkled over the landscape in which you are currently moving. It is psychotic.…

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…