Jeremy C Kester

Jeremy C Kester

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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
  • Writing the Excuses 1 – The Rewrites

    In keeping with the suggestion I made for myself in my post, “In The Numbers”, I am going to go over the 4 excuses that Dean Wesley Smith listed in his own article that inspired the aforementioned post. In this post, I’ll go over the 1st excuse: “Excuse #1… What about rewrites? If you are…

    Jeremy C Kester

    January 7, 2021
    Blog
    editing, excuses, independent writing, revisions, writing, writing goals, writing process
  • In The Numbers

    It took 5 days, but I finally hit my goal of 1,000 words written of fiction on the 5th. I am not sure why it’s 1,000 words. I guess I came up with that as a simple round number that was more than attainable. Given that if I sit down and focus, I can achieve…

    Jeremy C Kester

    January 6, 2021
    Blog
    Dean Wesley Smith, independent writing, the passive voice, word count, writing, writing process
  • Institutional Decay

    What are institutions for? What grants their authority? Why should we listen to them? These and many other questions can be asked by someone similar to me, someone with a mindset of continual questioning. Or maybe someone who trends against authority. I have a skeptical mindset, often wanting to question the reasons why things are…

    Jeremy C Kester

    January 5, 2021
    Blog
    institution, questions, science
  • Can Me Write Good?

    Ah, a reoccurring theme. I’ve written on this before, and I am certain that I will explore this topic many more times after this entry too. What is good writing? Am I a good writer? Or asked a better way: can good write me? I am certain that this question enters the minds of a…

    Jeremy C Kester

    January 4, 2021
    Blog
    grammar, Harry Potter, independent writing, Star Wars, Stephanie Meyer, writer, writing, writing well
  • Snowy Distractions

    Ah, winter. The time of cold and snow. Where it snows overnight seemingly every time that the weather goes that direction. It seems that this week I’ve spent more time outside in the morning than I have been doing anything else. Others in the household need to get up to take shifts and therefore, being…

    Jeremy C Kester

    January 3, 2021
    Blog
    distraction, weather, winter, writing, writing discipline
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