An Audience of None

An Audience of None

One’s journal is a sanctuary, a space wherein a writer can simply self-express. Its unassuming blankness offers a container for philosophizing, ranting, sentimentalizing, weeping, and creating. It is a repository of one’s truth, if not always of fact. The words...
Do Breaks Break Your Story?

Do Breaks Break Your Story?

I’ve had more trips than usual this past summer and as things wound down, I’ve had time to reflect on the value of taking breaks. When a project is going—well or not—it’s advisable to carry on, full steam and all that. But there is a time to take a break. I typically...
Writing as a Priority

Writing as a Priority

Priorities are a way to set guideposts for a life well-lived.That’s well-lived personally defined. Writing is my declared priority; therefore, I had better be writing no matter the kind of life I’m having. Yet it is sometimes difficult to live up to that declared...
Life Experience – is it a prerequisite to writing?

Life Experience – is it a prerequisite to writing?

How much life experience do you need to be a writer? Familiar with the assertion that life experience is crucial to being a good writer? I’ve been wondering recently how much and in what ways this is true.  Life experience?     And yet, despite my lack of exceptional...
Ruminations on Writing as a Practice

Ruminations on Writing as a Practice

Writing for me is a practice. I mean practice in the same way people use the word when talking about meditation. It hasn’t always been this for me. Originally, I wrote for fun, because I couldn’t help myself. Telling stories to and for myself was my passion.  And it...

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