Serenity… refocus – seek joy – thrive

The site will likely be going dark again for a couple of days. The server bill is due… past due, in fact, and I won’t be paying it until Monday. I’ve not been writing here over the past few days anyway, though of course I intend to start again. My life is a bit more [...]

Where has this been all my life? I think the stories have been waiting for me to hear them again. It’s interesting–and sometimes tragic–what life does to creativity. Pictures have been going through my mind this morning of when I was young. Very young, pre-teens. If I didn’t have a book in my hands, I [...]

Are you a morning scribbler, or an afternoon one, or not a scribbler at all? These are my important questions of the day. I am pretty sure I’ve written about this site before, most likely a year or so ago when I first found it. 750 Words says of itself: I’ve long been inspired by [...]

I would, I think, need a little fortifying before treading across this one. via

And editing, revising, cutting — doing what is necessary to make your writing compelling, interesting and engaging. Only, the book is so boring that I am not certain I’ll make it past the first chapter. Perhaps I should treat it as a cautionary tale, if nothing else.    

I have a lot to do. I have limited time (and concentration) to do it, so it seems that getting organized is the first thing on my list. Now I have to say, just between you and me, that I am not a naturally organized person. At all. But as I mentioned in my last [...]

Um… yes, again. I think, probably, that I will start a few more times as well. The way I figure it, this is my first time writing a book, so this is my practice time. Especially when you consider that I’ve not been in any creative writing classes, so have not had the benefit of [...]

Both in terms of the site being up (in case anyone but me noticed it was down for a couple of days), and in terms of being here instead of elsewhere. I have, as I mentioned before, been Tumbling along. I like it and I don’t like it, and I have thoughts as to why. [...]