I’m not writing here anymore — and I know that’s not nothing, especially for those of you who have shown up for me over the years. You deserve —
Writing
Why?
There are days that I sit here and wonder why I write. I’ve asked myself that question more often than not over the past decade. I had hopes —
NaNoWriMo
The leaves are starting to fall and there is a crispness in the air. Autumn is slowly arriving and bringing with it NaNoWriMo. On October 5, all of —
Complacency: The Writer
“The moment a writer knows how to achieve a certain effect, the method must be abandoned. Effects repeated become false, mannered. The writer’s style is his doppelgänger, an —
Why am I writing here?
Why am I writing here? That’s a good question and one posed to me by my husband. I have a “writer’s blog” I’ve had on WordPress dot com —
Writing, not typing.
When Jack Kerouac wrote “On the Road,” he did it on telex paper so he didn’t have to stop writing long enough to replace the paper in his —
Desire and writing
I’m sitting here, knowing I have a perfectly good blog to write on located in a different dimension. Unfortunately, I don’t have a lot of desire to write —
Faulkner: Don’t Worry About Style
I think the story compels its own style to a great extent, that the writer don’t need to bother too much about style. If he’s bothering about style, —