Jeremy C Kester

Jeremy C Kester

converting caffeine into words

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  • Novels
    • The Good Teacher
    • Remember the Yorktown (Gravity 1)
    • The Dangerous Life of Agnes Pyle
  • short stories
    • Into Fire’s Den
    • Farm Life Lost
  • PoemsPoems by Jeremy C Kester
    • Change of Seasons: Selected Poems
    • varied degrees of darkness: selected poems
  • Why I am Failing as a Writer: Part 2 – Fear

    Writer Kristine Kathryn Rusch has released a topical series on her Business Musings portion of her site called “How Writers Fail”. Each essay or post focuses on a reason that writers on all levels fail. Given my interest in becoming a professional writer, I decided to run my own series as a response to her…

    Jeremy C Kester

    September 12, 2022
    Blog
    anxiety, failure, fear, how writers fail, independent writing, kristine kathryn Rusch, life, writing, writing fear, writing process
  • Why I am Failing as a Writer: Part 1

    I bookmarked them as they came out. For a few years, I have followed Kristine Kathryn Rusch and her writing blog, paying particular attention to her “Business Musings” entries. For those who don’t know, Kristine is a long established writer who co-runs a small publishing house with her husband Dean. Once traditional, she now operates…

    Jeremy C Kester

    September 5, 2022
    Blog
    Blog, failure, goals, how writers fail, independent writing, kristine kathryn Rusch, life lessons, writing, writing failure, writing process
  • Working on Changes (part 1?)

    This is a bit of the update to follow-up on the last post on this site. Much was stated in that post on my issues in dealing with fears and other traits I have that lead to derailing my creative projects and desires. That work of course will be long and take lots of time…

    Jeremy C Kester

    August 30, 2022
    Blog, News, Updates, and Events
    blogging, goals, independent writing, life, life lessons, marketing, writing, writing process
  • Learning How to Move Forward

    A Rant on My Writing It is amazing how effort begets more effort and lack of effort begets more lacking effort. Emotions feed themselves. Energy draws more energy. It is why routine and such habits tend to build upon themselves. It is also why when writers don’t write, we find it harder still to start…

    Jeremy C Kester

    August 8, 2022
    Blog
    anxiety, fear, goals, independent writing, life, life lessons, self sabotage, Steven Pressfield, The War of Art, writing, writing process
  • Oh! The Delays!

    This is why I’ve been trying to build a habit of not committing to dates. And yet, I have to acknowledge that dates and deadlines are important. Being early in this profession of being a writer — whether it becomes an actual profession or remains a hobby that occasionally makes money — picking dates for…

    Jeremy C Kester

    July 16, 2022
    Blog, News, Updates, and Events
    life, updates, writing, writing process
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