Jan 14
To me writing has been about long nights, staring at a white screen covered in little words. It’s been about talking about who I am, who I’m not and all the little things in between. I’ve suffered through all of it. A writer’s suffering is their guide to what they should write. My discovery …
Jan 11
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. ~ The Dalai Lama Last week I talked about fear in writing, but there is something else that is better, Joy. There are many things that can cause joy for a writer. The first time you finish a book Get an agent Get a publisher The first …
Jan 04
“The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.” –Buddha Fear and failure When I came up with idea for this series of posts, I was most looking forward to fear. Fear is something that can change us. With fear it adds another layer to who we are, …
Dec 03
Authenticity is important. It tells people who you are, what you write and what you think of yourself. Something has changed with me the last few days. It started with my day job. For those that don’t know, I’m a barback/bartender on the Las Vegas strip. This means I stock beer, glasses and sometimes I pour …
Nov 26
I’m reading The Right to Write by Julia Cameron. I don’t read writing books very often, but someone suggested it and I liked The Artist’s Way. I’ve only just started the book, a few chapters in and I’m like where the book is going. Her idea about time and writing are what I like the most. I’ve set aside time …
Nov 23
When I finished my post for The Today Voice the other day, that’s the blog I’m contributing to if you didn’t know, I thought about the post. The prompt was what was I thankful for. You can read it here. After writing it I thought about the moment that created what I’m thankful for and …
Nov 12
Writing is something special to me, it’s something that makes me breathe, makes me dream and most of all I feel it has made me more free. I’ve written two books, yes t-w-o. Each of them have their good parts. Most of all I learned how to write better by writing each one. They may never be …
Oct 05
We think of being lost as something about our mind, our soul or our physical person. Being lost has many things to it. When a person is in a coma, are they still there or is their mind wandering, like Alice. When we die does our soul take a journey to someplace. When our physical …
Sep 21
We see our restful waking moments like there always coming. Those moments of clarity, when things are the way we wish they’d always been. These moments are the ones we see often, but struggle to find in our darkest days. Dark days stand like monoliths in the waking night. They’re the gargoyles on the church steeple, …
Sep 17
For the past few weeks I’ve tried to work on my novel. There have been problems along the way. Since reading The Great Gatsby and learning not to be afraid of how I write and just doing it and not caring what anyone thinks–I’ve had older stories, these are the novel I’ve already written and stories …
