Serenity… refocus – seek joy – thrive

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. [...]

I don’t enjoy mornings as much as I used to. It’s not just that I am getting older, having trouble sleeping and just hate to get up. At least it’s not all due to that. I think it is because right now, in a sense, the mornings are no longer mine. There are a few [...]

A while ago I began to notice that many of the people I liked to read were disappearing from their blogs. This, of course, is understandable–after all, I regularly disappear from mine. Some I tracked to Facebook, others to Twitter, and this last batch I tracked to Tumblr. It is, it seems, too much to [...]

Among my many excuses for not writing on my sites, top of the list has been that the WordPress editor screen just makes it inconvenient to do so. It’s small and cramped, the typeface is tiny and can’t easily be made bigger, and it is just annoying. There are various fixes for at least the [...]

On which to, no doubt, not write. But still. The new one is for me to write down my natterings, reflections, thoughts about Blackness and so on — and I am going to try to make this blog, Serenity etc, more of a professional space. Where I don’t just drabble on and on about unconnected [...]

Just tonight I am finding this out. Serenity was/has been my name on IRC chat since 1996 so to me the use of it here made sense.  Now, though… not so much. Well, not that it doesn’t still make sense to me, but now it is also a little embarrassing. When people started talking about [...]