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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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. [...]