August 13th, 2010
Ack! I haven’t updated in almost a month! Sorry, there’s been a lot going on in my personal life recently, and I’ve been a bit distracted. On the good side, I have applied a dose of discipline and commitment to my writing, and I have been getting some work done.
I’ve put the current novel-in-progress on [...]
July 27th, 2010
In a time and place not very far in the past, perhaps ten or fifteen years ago:
A boy, not yet a man, has completed his first novel. It’s a sword-and-sorcery fantasy epic that took him six years to write. In that time he has found the how-to books about publishing in the library and in [...]
July 19th, 2010
Comic lifted from "Toothpaste for Dinner." Go read.
Often when I’m on a journey of emotional self-discovery (as I am now, thanks for asking) I will revisit the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator as a means of re-centering myself and making peace with my own tendencies. I first took a Myers-Briggs test in high school, and [...]
July 16th, 2010
Sometimes I write bad poetry. Since I don’t plan to sell it, I can share some of it here.
Grow Wild
Some people love gardens
But I prefer wild places
Though they may be hard to reach and dangerous to travel.
Cultivation and control can make things look pretty
But I have only ever felt my soul
Where life is free to [...]
July 15th, 2010
My best friend Liz is training to run her first marathon. On Wednesday she blogged about it, and the way training changed her mindset and her priorities. For the first time, she says, she started to think about herself as an athlete.
I watched her run her first real race in early May, and seeing [...]
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