Confessions of a Working Writer

It's been a while and a lot has happened. I am now recovering from my time with COVID and I have some things to say.

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A lot is happening in the world today. Murders, protests, pandemics, and riots have impacted all of us in one way or the other. 

What's the role of the writer in all of this? What's the role of the ar…

We talk a lot about mental health when we talk about creativity. Writers, artists, and musicians are often as remembered for their difficulties as they are for their work. In fact, this is one of the…

What is storytelling?

It's a question without a simple answer, one that varies wildly based on style, medium, end personal experience. I've been a storyteller most of my life and now I make my living …

What is storytelling?

It's a question without a simple answer, one that varies wildly based on style, medium, end personal experience. I've been a storyteller most of my life and now I make my living …

What is storytelling?

It's a question without a simple answer, one that varies wildly based on style, medium, end personal experience. I've been a storyteller most of my life and now I make my living …

We've done it!

Over the course of a few months, we've gone through all of the basic components you need to start a work of fiction. Or at least my version of it. 

But how do we put all of it together? …

You did it!

You wrote that piece and it's there, in your hands, ready for the world.

But you're scared. So you put it back in the drawer, you hide it. You find a way to select who gets to see it.

We've …

Are you taking time for you?

Writing a work of fiction with no breaks hurts. It's bad for the mind, the body, the spirit, and the piece of fiction. 

Why are we so bad at this part of the process?

And wh…

Have you ever looked at a book and thought about how visual the words on the page are? Almost like a painting or a drawing, the words form lines, create negative space, and actually add a lot to the …

It's time for a wake-up call. 

For me, for you, for creatives, and for people who are just trying to figure things out.

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Have you ever seen how a musician treats their instrument? How a singer cares for their voice? A dancer for their body? A painter for their hands?

These are the tools of their trade, the thing that al…

There is a terror that strikes all writers, great and small.

Something so insidious, so dug in, that it can never be defeated fully. It will always exist and continue to derail our best intentions for…

My world went crazy about a month ago...

For some people, the world just went crazy. When times get hard we often lose our minds because we lose ourselves. We forget who we are, forget what we do, and…

I took a look back at mentors and the powerful effect they had on my life. But not everything was roses, some of it was hard, and in the hardest lessons I learned the most.

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Remember all those hours in high school trying to identify the theme and subtext of a work of fiction? 

Yeah, me too. It was terrible, easily one of my least favorite parts of reading in high school a…

The time has come to build our plot!

The characters are ready. The stage is set. Everything we need to unfold our amazing plot is ready to go. 

Now we just have to tell our audience everything that hap…

I am more than halfway through my life.

And there's no guarantee I get that far. Truth it, I could get hit by a bus when I leave my apartment today. What happens to everything I wanted to accomplish? …

What Comes First? The Plot? Or The Characters?

The answer is simple, but it might not be what you think. 

Plot is what happens when great characters are allowed to walk around and do their thing. When …

I realized something.

The blog that brought me back to writing is also the thing I'm using to keep me from working on the projects I really want. Why? Lot's of reasons. People like it, and it feels go…