When I’m bored, I often start thinking of really horrible titles for novels. Titles like… The Bird That Pooped on the Universe Pwned by the Dragon King The Funkiest Knight Slow Fizz Djinni Oh Shit! Zombies! But nothing I come up with compares with the best/worst romance novel title EVER. Oh well.
My primary goal today, in honor of my father and Ray Bradbury, as part of my attempt to rage against the dying of the light and to rekindle the fire, was to do some writing. I didn’t have any story ideas burning up my brain, which scared the bejeezus out of me, but I desperately [...]
With everything that’s been going on the past couple of weeks, I realized today I’m never going to catch up with my poem a day project, which I’d already fallen behind on. I’m not giving up on writing poetry (I still owe people poems from last year’s fundraising event), but I know I can’t manage [...]
Those summer days were long and weary, but full of the plump expectations of rain and regret that seemed to always punctuate our time together. I remember strolling down the great, stone steps to the shore, your soft hand in mine, as we chatted about the nights we’d lost to alcohol and fireworks, our clothes [...]
You know how a musician will put an add up somewhere saying something like, “Guitarist seeking musicians to jam with”? This is something like that. I love writing. Even when a particular bit of writing is giving me fits, I love the act of writing. I always feel much happier after I’ve done some writing, [...]
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