… at least I can blog.
There are days when the writing just zips along. The hours devoted to crafting little fictions breeze by.
Then there are the days when writing is a slog, or when life’s many interruptions cut into writing time.
Continue reading “When I can’t write…”I have several writing projects underway. A good many of them are in the phase of what I would call “a good start.” Too few of them are anywhere near the finish line.
(With apologies to Shakespeare.)
Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof.
Ecclesiastes 7:8
I have several writing projects underway. A good many of them are in the phase of what I would call “a good start.” Too few of them are anywhere near the finish line.
Continue reading “To start, perchance to finish”Over the past few weeks, I’ve been playing around with flash fiction and its subgenre micro fiction as a way of trying to crystallize my writing. One tangible result is this story, “Lunch break.”
Wouldn’t you know it: two days after telling you that I seldom use the exclamation point, it makes an appearance in the title of a post for the second time in a row.
Its presence is deserved, I think, to help convey the joy of getting published less than a month into this new leg of my writing journey.
“Lunch Break,” a bit of micro fiction I submitted to the website Paragraph Planet, is today’s featured story on the site. Huzzah!
Continue reading “Published!”A lot of writers and other artists have a bit of Thurber in them.
Even when you’re not writing, you’re writing.
I said this recently to a writer-friend who had not been doing much writing lately. My remark was an attempt to help my friend feel better, but I’m not sure it landed as I had hoped. But I’ve thought a lot about that brief exchange, and it prompted me to elaborate on that idea.
The exchange also brought to mind this quip from author, humorist, and cartoonist James Thurber.
Continue reading “Never not writing”I never quite know when I’m not writing. Sometimes my wife comes up to me at a party and says, “Dammit, Thurber, stop writing.” She usually catches me in the middle of a paragraph.
From Conversations with James Thurber, edited by Thomas Fensch
Reprising a former practice as we head into the weekend.
In this blog’s previous life as a resource for higher education marketers and communicators, I would occasionally post a feature on Friday called Friday Five. It usually consisted of a collection of links on a specific topic, or occasionally five-part Q&As with writers, other bloggers, and other people influential in the marketing/PR/communication world. Anyway, I thought I might reprise this idea with a focus on the craft of writing. Consider this the maiden voyage of the new Friday Five.
Continue reading “Friday Five: opportunity knocking”
