To get started, write one true sentence. Hemingway had a simple trick for overcoming writer’s block. In a memorable passage in A Moveable Feast, he writes: Sometimes when I was starting a new story and I could not get it going, … Continue reading Writer’s Block?
“Who am I?” The Damaged and Broken Collection I am an independent, self-published teller of tales. I am currently an author of scarcely any renown. However, as a storyteller, I know who I am, and with that persona, I am both confident and comfortable. I … Continue reading Short Story Scibe
I spent much of my younger years as a vagabond, it is the life to which my very soul was drawn. While not looking. I found someone. That person claimed a desire to move with me. However, over time it … Continue reading The Vanished Vagabond
“I am no longer the boy who came here, nor am I the man I was destined to be.” Does a returning war veteran ever escape the horrors to which they bore witness? Shell shock was the terminology of WWI, … Continue reading PTSD – When The Fighting Stops, The War Rages On
People mistake conflict and chaos as abnormal. I believe they are the normal state. The universe was created of chaos. Instead of trying to fight it, we must adapt. Our response to the conflicted chaos is important. Chaos and conflict create the … Continue reading Conflict and Chaos
