Category: Blog
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The Practice
When you are a creative person — a writer, a painter, a woodcarver — you crave the very act itself. You need to do it; not unlike the need to eat or drink, more spiritual in a way, it remains as necessary. Rot and despair follow otherwise, only serving to further spin the doom loop.
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Quantifiable
A quick essay where I am asking, “how often should I be releasing work on these sites?” There is a question always entering my mind as a creative individual around quantity. How much should one write? How much should one publish? How often should we bother those who are (or might be) our readers? In…
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Course Corrections
This site has seen a lot of my going back and forth, changing my mind and goals with the regularity of how often one is supposed to change their underwear (Daily, ladies and gentlemen — at least). And here I go again. I will keep trying and trying and trying. It will be an honest…
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Never Ending
The work never ends. It never stops. Onward and forward it must go, relentless in its persistent need to be there, forever waiting for you even as you trudge through the struggle it inflicts upon you. Life is relentless this way, a chisel against stone. Yet, if one wishes to feel the joy of purpose,…
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Substack
Update: 2/10/2025: Experiments are ongoing for everything. I am actually going to be doing everything on both my new Substack AND this site. It’ll be a little bit more work to manage both, but it makes more sense. And there will be more content that will be “free” or general release. This has been on…
Jeremy C Kester 