This year I finished a novel, wrote and mostly edited a novella, wrote a number of short stories that I forgot to keep track of, made a blog post every day this year, read/listened to 34 novels, and helped start an online magazine. It's been a productive year for writing! Best novel I read this year: …
Thought is a luxury we should not take for granted.
Sometimes we all feel like we have no time to relax and think. But imagine for a moment a field worker or a miner or any other manual laborer, living just a couple centuries ago. Such a person probably didn't know how to read, or not how to read for enjoyment. They worked day all …
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What are your resolutions?
To write more? I bet one of them is to write more. All us writers tend to make that resolution every year. But the trick to keeping those resolutions is to make your goal something measurable, and achievable. For example, no nebulous 'write more' goals. Pick something solid like 'write a story each month' or …
Caged light
Something about this light caught my eye. It struck me as so bleak that I stopped for a closer look. I liked this picture at first because of the symmetry, but then I started to imagine all kinds of symbolism, as writers tend to do. A dull sky and a prison-like wall, and a light …
Pictures–they are fun?
I have been taking lots of photos because my new phone has an amazing camera... maybe they will show up here? Photos on a writing blog?? What is the world coming to... I think photography is similar to writing in that you take a situation and slice out the portion you want to show the …
Jonas David 