Writer’s Log, Stardate 2306.7 “When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look at the forest.” ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft After taking an hour-long rest-and-relaxation break before noon, I decided to focus myContinue reading “On Writing & Storytelling: Today I Edited; Tomorrow…I’ll Write?”
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Musings & Thoughts for Tuesday, May 23, 2023, or: Heigh-ho, Heigh-ho, It’s Back to Work I Go….
“Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring, a charlatan in place of the warm balmy nights I dream of in April. It’s a sad season of life without growth…It has no day.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise Hello there, Dear Reader. It’s late morning here in my corner of Lithia, Florida,Continue reading “Musings & Thoughts for Tuesday, May 23, 2023, or: Heigh-ho, Heigh-ho, It’s Back to Work I Go….”
On Writing & Storytelling: A Slow Start Morphs into a Writing Marathon – and I Have the Strained Eyes to Prove It!
Wednesday, April 26, 2023 SITREP “Tell the story that’s been growing in your heart, the characters you can’t keep out of your head, the tale story that speaks to you, that pops into your head during your daily commute, that wakes you up in the morning.” ― Jennifer Weiner It’s late evening on Wednesday, AprilContinue reading “On Writing & Storytelling: A Slow Start Morphs into a Writing Marathon – and I Have the Strained Eyes to Prove It!”
Musings & Thoughts for Sunday, April 23, 2023, or, Weekend Update, Part the Second
You put the ‘Sun’ into my day. Happy Sunday! ― Anthony T. Hincks It’s late morning here in Lithia, Florida, on a quiet, cool-but-warming-up Sunday, April 23, 2023. I wanted to sleep at least until 8; I went to bed way past midnight (I didn’t go to the kitchen to check the time before IContinue reading “Musings & Thoughts for Sunday, April 23, 2023, or, Weekend Update, Part the Second”
On Writing & Storytelling: A Writer’s Rest Day & More Arrows for My Quiver
“Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it’s always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.” ― Neil Gaiman It’s late afternoon here in lovely Lithia, Florida, on Saturday, March 25, 2023. Since it’s the weekend, and sinceContinue reading “On Writing & Storytelling: A Writer’s Rest Day & More Arrows for My Quiver”
A Certain Point of View, Too 