Category: Blog
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Two Pet Peeves
My reading has fallen off. The last few weeks I’ve struggled to pick up the books I’ve been reading. In large part, like Law of Success by Napoleon Hill, it isn’t that the book is bad or uninteresting, it’s that it’s a slog to get through. It’s taking considerable effort. Now, in this case, it’s…
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A Therapeutic Rant
To say that I haven’t written in a long time is not quite an accurate statement. I have written some. Mainly words have come in sporadic bursts, like a sneeze of literary gumption, where I will add words to a page and then move on to some other thing, seemingly unable to continue writing. Days…
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And Then There Were Two…
The task of rewriting Of Earth and Ice, the monster 171,000 word draft I had finished writing last year, has begun. More or less, the writing itself is slower in progress than that of the new outline. Frankly, I didn’t take the story where I wanted to take it. Now, in the revision, I can…
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To Rebuild a Habit
A number of my last posts have been dedicated to the issues I’ve had in writing every day. It’s been tough, absolutely. Yes. Indeed. Despite the trials in it, the capability is there. I know it is. The near 300,000 words I wrote last year with a good consistent running shows that I can do…
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The Remade Scene I Didn’t Know I Wanted
I was shown this via an email newsletter from Nerdist. I am happy that I was shown it. I am a big Star Wars fan. I love it. There’s a lot to love; there’s also a lot to hate. On the side of love, the duel in the Phantom Menace (episode 1 and part of…
Jeremy C Kester 