Today was a beautiful day, I attended a wedding in the park. Writing this post at the end of a long day. Had a conversation about writing with one of the guests who is also a writer. I realized how much I love writing. We discussed her book in progress and when she asked me [...]

Have been writing an in-between story idea in order to clear the last story from my mind; it’s like crackers at a wine tasting. The idea for the story was inspired by the origins of the Bank of North Dakota which is one of the few banks in the country that is still strong and [...]

Commitment has been a recurring theme in my blog posts during the last few months but its relationship to desire is becoming an important part of how I am thinking about this subject and creativity. There have been a bunch of conversation between me and people I know about times when we have failed to [...]

My story, The Quest to Make a Living from My Creative Passions, is finished. I felt good after the reading of it last night. It reminded me of something I had heard or read before: Endings should feel good. The ending that feels good is complete. Endings that feel bad usually have a negative emotional [...]

There was a surge of clarity during my writing the last two nights. The things that didn’t work were crystal clear and the way to repair them was clear, also. I could feel Walter Mosley’s words hovering over the rewrites: keep the writing pedestrian, simple. I thought of his audiobook, The Right Mistake, and the [...]

The story was close to being finished, but my body was reacting as if it were an allergen. One night my eyes kept watering and itching whenever I would start to write and my body felt really weird. These bodily reactions would end as soon as I stopped working on the story. I tried to [...]

The idea for this post was inspired by the words of the main character in Jurassic Park lll who said, there are two types of people: astronomers and astronauts. Astronomers study life and their subject from a safe distance. Astronauts want to experience life and their subject. I almost stopped the movie to take notes [...]

The paragraph which was giving me trouble earlier is still a problem in my latest story. I moved around and added a few sentences to remedy the problem but it only got worse. The thing is, sometimes the problem is in the foundation. The idea that weak writing can be fixed by adding stuff or [...]

It was strange to email the comments to my friend about the music he did for my story. The action seemed simple, insignificant even, because it was easy when compared to the wondering and the questioning before it was sent. It made me wonder if some of my dreams are on hold because of the [...]

My story, The Quest to Make A Living from My Creative Passions, is almost finished. A sentence here and a paragraph there are still being reworked but only lightly; the heavy-lifting has been done. This is another story that I will add music to and it will start with giving my friend Stephan a call. [...]