Category Writing

Creative Procrastination

Nothing inspires procrastination like a blank page. Am I right, writers? We sit down at our keyboard or our journal or our clay tablet with a fierce intention to get right down to it, to pound out that chapter…

Story Time

Somewhat in keeping with my last post, in which I whinged about Daylight Savings, I offer you one of my short-short stories. Hope you find it worthwhile! Pause A figure leaned against the doorjamb, one foot crossed in front of the…

Another Day That Won’t Count

With the first shot from the holiday season already arcing over the bow, it seems a good time to revisit a post from the past . . . especially as today is again, in fact, another rainy Sunday and I…

It’s November, and You Know What That Means

I’m not talking turkey here, or Day of the Dead, and certainly not Black Friday (which I abhor, but that’s a topic for another time. Maybe Black Friday). I’m talking NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month for the uninitiated. This…

Starter’s Block

ignatianspirituality.com What is it about beginning something that is so fraught? Especially, very most especially, a writing project. For me, beginning a big writing project comes more heavily freighted with angst than the other beginnings one normally associates with stress: a…