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Category: The Writer

Mistakes – Incompetency, Fate, or Negative Beauty?

On the morning of December 4, 2024, part of my journal entry looked like this: Last night: I […]

12.20.2024 Art and War, On Being, The Writer

The Poetic (and Ironic) Nature of Life

Yesterday, the last article I’d write under my own name for a client was published. It’s the third […]

05.03.2023 Miscellaneous, The Writer

Scared of Being Okay

One thing scares the living daylights out of my soul as a creator, and that’s being okay. Or […]

04.26.2023 On Being, The Writer

Order and Originality

A month or so ago, I came across a quote by Gustave Faubert, which goes like this: “Be […]

04.16.2023 The Writer

Writers Don’t Know Anything About What They’re Writing

It’s funny how instinctively people reading something would assume that the writer knows what they’re writing about. It’s […]

02.18.2023 The Writer

The Creative Process

It’s an elusive thing, isn’t it, what we call the “creative process”. Sometimes it eludes us altogether, and […]

03.17.2022 Art and War, The Writer

Brilliant Ideas

I’m not the only one who holds on to ideas I think are brilliant, waiting for the right […]

01.17.2022 Art and War, The Writer

Write Stuck

Sometimes the words come easy. Sometimes they don’t. That’s not an excuse to stop writing. Athletes don’t just […]

11.18.2021 The Writer, Writing and Wordsmithing

Doubt

Doubt never leaves the persistent writer. Always the questions come and linger painfully, tauntingly. Sometimes for hours, weeks, […]

10.04.2021 Art and War, The Writer

Contemplation

Somewhere amidst the hectic and heady digital world lies the calm and contemplative Analog Sea. An “offline publisher […]

09.17.2021 The Writer

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