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  • Why Do I Blog?

    Today’s daily prompt is fairly simple: Why do I blog? That’s an important question for a blogger. It’s like asking any writer: Why do you write? Knowing why can help shape the future of your craft. A little introspection is good for professional and personal growth. And truth be told, the answer changes over time.… Read more

  • Stephen King on Writing

    I came across this quote today by Stephen King. It struck a chord with me. “Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.” This is a trap I am still learning how to avoid. The temptation to describe absolutely everything in meticulous and inane detail is something that, while appealing to… Read more

  • What We Feel

    How are you feeling right now? When I saw this daily prompt, it turned me thoughtful. How am I feeling at this very moment? I considered that I could write about how I feel excited for today, hopeful for the future, disappointed, discouraged, content, happy, restless. But I have been all these things in the… Read more

  • TV and Nostalgia

    What TV shows did you watch as a kid? Nostalgia gets a bad rap for being a blindfold that prevents us from perceiving hard truths about our childhoods. That can be true, but let’s not throw the baby out with the bathwater. I have very fond memories of my childhood that nostalgia helps keep alive,… Read more

  • My Top Ten Favorite Movies

    WordPress’s daily prompt made me think long and hard today … These are my top ten favorite movies (in no particular order): Porco Rosso – One of Studio Ghibli’s lesser known creations, a lowkey, introspective movie set in 1930s Italy. The protagonist is an ace pilot cursed to have the face of a pig. Why?… Read more

  • Writing is a Whitewater Rapid, Writing is a Block of Marble

    What do you enjoy most about writing? Writing is an act of creation. It is the free exercise of imagination and the production of things unseen, undreamt, uncertain until that very moment. It is as dynamic as a mountain river and just as unpredictable. It ebbs and flows. Currents crisscross one another and pull me… Read more