Identifying my feelings has been a bit easy just for the pure fact that I'm constantly in my head. As a writer, it's kind of required to have some insight to emotions--the reasons, the workings, apart and together. Writing, for me, causes an introspection, especially when I want to pin down character reactions and interactions. …
Category: Fri-losophy
Intake/Outtake
Sometimes breathing is part of it. It starts every movement, it supplies every muscle, stretches and fuels, and--once in a while--pulls the rivers in the opposite direction.
One Year at a Time
One full year of posting. It's been work. It's been fun. It's been a struggle. It's been glorious. I feel as if I had a lot of low moments. But, I think, I've had just as many high moments producing stories I really enjoyed writing. I'm a little lost on where I'm going yet excited …
Learning Curve
Learning to acceptLearning to liveLearning to understandthe diamond buried barren
Endless Determination
What happens when the vines close?What happens when the rain showers dark?What happens when an avalanche covers?What happens when you fall from high?What happens when you fail?Sometimes it gets close, but finding that last glimmer--at the bottom of the leaves, the debris--I brush the dirt off and start climbing again,Because the choice to give up …
Motivation
One day at a time, one day at a time--Where do you begin?Where do you end?One day at a time, one story at a time--It's a journey, it's a marathon--One day at a time--
For Now
Sometimes there's a day when frustration rattles every word and sentence. It becomes a fight up a muddy hole. Chapters and ideas seem like burnt mush. And every possibility to improve a book, or start something new, melts away before I can get a decent grip. I seem blind. Frustration gains a firmer grip, and …
One Day at a Time
The struggle. It's not much. It doesn't feel like it's much. The struggle seems petty and small, and never seems to amount to something worth while. Because the struggle attacks like a rabid wolf. A starving wolf. I guess everything and everyone struggles. To some degree. But, it makes no sense to me why I …
The Great Dreamer
Jackie's impatience was getting the better of her. She'd set everything up perfectly through hours of tedious work. She'd dragged the lounger from her apartment and scooted it to the center of her patio of her condo facing the open beach. She'd tucked a cooler full of sodas and beer, snacks to the other side, …
The Madness that Spores
the moon turned off, everything disappeared, dashed awayBy bleeding purple, nothing remained, nothing in the storesNo skeletons in the car, no clothes dropped, no puncture woundsNo dead. Just vanished. the world stopped turning, everything froze, bone dust coveredEverything in snow, the red mist drenched, the trees leftWith no oxygen to breathe, no roots to plant, …
Just Buckle Down 