When I sit down to write something for The Juggling Writer, I always have a good idea what it is I want to say. I might discover much of an entry along the way, but I always have a few chunky bits in my head to get me started and pull me through. Sometimes I […]
The Paris Hours Review
[A disclaimer: I am friends with Alex George, the author of THE PARIS HOURS. That said, I knew Alex’s writing before I knew him (through his old blog). And even if I knew nothing about Alex, this is still the review I’d share…] The Paris Hours Moments after finishing THE PARIS HOURS, I messaged Alex […]
Inspired Writing
I believe this to be generally true: If you wait to feel inspired by bigger things every time you write, it’s likely you will never get much writing done. But I don’t buy into the common belief that inspiration is for amateurs. I have a very workaday approach to writing that I’m sure comes from […]
Hand Writing
My ideal writing morning looks like this: The night before, I think a little about what I’ll write the next morning. The next morning, I wake up between 4:30 – 5:30 and lie in bed a moment thinking about what needs to be written. I wander to the kitchen and drink a glass of water […]
The Professor
My sister was five years older than me, and music (and books) were her refuge. Because she tended to hang out with people a bit older than her, the music she listened to was definitely well ahead of what I bought as a kid. One day on her bedroom floor was an album with a […]
Taking One Last Leap
In one hour and forty-nine minutes, it will be 2020 in North Texas. But I’ve mentioned before that I consider September my new year. And so, this entry is not a recap of the year…nor is it a list of resolutions and goals I wish to accomplish in 2020. At the moment, with the exception […]
The Ambition Machine
[This got a bit long…] We live in a world where so many of us are told we can become anything we want to be. From a young age, we’re told if we simply work hard, all our dreams will come true. (And the sharper side of that message: if they don’t, it’s all your […]
Ten Years
Ten years ago… I was a little more than three months shy of being laid off from my first real technical writing job [the week before Christmas]. I was slowly coming out of a depression that almost ended the things most important to me — including me. I was working on the most “me” novel […]
The September Silence – 2019
It’s that time of the year when I step away from all social media for a month. A friend calls it the September Silence, which is now what I call it. September is a month kicking off several things I look forward to: The tenth anniversary of The Juggling Writer. (It’s funny to me that […]
The Kind Ones
There’s a certain pain in wanting to do the thing you love more than you’re able to do because life comes with certain demands. Technical writing is not the writing I want to do, but it is the writing that pays the bills. I am not so naive to think that writing fiction full time […]
What Is Literary Fiction
In the weeks following a short story’s release on my fiction podcast, Not About Lumberjacks, I record a short behind-the-scenes audio essay about the story. Sometimes I focus on the mechanics of the story or what went into recording, while other times, I focus on something thematic surrounding the story. Most recently, I spent six […]
Writing 1,000 Words a Day
I am that writer who mostly doesn’t track things. Beginning last August, I did begin marking days I wrote (or didn’t write) on a calendar, but there is no rule for what constitutes a good day of writing, other than if I felt I did enough to earn a green X on the calendar instead […]
Paterson Movie
Most movies about writers end with the kind of victory movies have conditioned us to expect: publication and awards…the writer we watched grow getting everything in life many believe comes to writers when they finally decide to publish. (As though it were that easy.) Paterson is not that movie — and because of that, I […]
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