This time of year, the house is quiet. At least compared to the previous months. Warmer weather reduces the need for heating the house, so the pellet stoves isn’t running anymore. Neither is the furnace we use as backup. By the middle of May, we won’t notice this lack of sound, but right now it’s …
Tag: writing
WHY I WRITE: Meet Kelly Thomas
I was still pretty green as a human being during the spring semester of 1998. Hadn’t been exposed to a lot of what the world had to offer, and my horizons didn’t stretch very far. By that point, I knew I wanted to be a writer, but I wasn’t sure what kind or how to …
All the World’s a Bardo
When I was working on the first draft of my novel, one of the themes I stumbled upon was liminality. Liminal space is an area of transition. For instance, puberty is a liminal state, with a person transitioning from childhood into adulthood. Liminality is often represented in folklore through streams and rivers, sunrises and sunsets. …
Of Darlings and Decisions
There’s an old adage writers use as a guiding light: “Murder your darlings.” It comes from the English writer, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, and is part of the advice he gives to writers as part of On the Art of Writing: a collection of lectures he gave at Cambridge: “If you here require a practical rule …
A TOUCH OF SILVER: Ethan’s Got Talent(ed Friends), pt. 2
A few weeks back, I shared the creative talents of a few friends of mine. Of all the stuff I’ve posted on the blog over the last year and a half or so, that piece ended up in the top five in terms of feedback. In the interest of keeping spirits elevated and sharing the …
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