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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
  • Not Being A Writing Failure

    There are many tasks, many activities that are involved in the over arching thing called being a writer. Writing is the biggest part, of course. It’s the activity that the job is named after. It’s the verb associated with the noun. But when one wants to become a professional, many more tasks come to become…

    Jeremy C Kester

    December 23, 2020
    Blog
    book editing, editing, writerslife, writing, writing anxiety, writing process, writing struggle
  • Done. Next!

    Took me long enough. Yesterday (12/21/2020) in the early afternoon, a little more than four years since book 1, I finished what effectively is a rewritten 1st draft of the next chapter of “The Dangerous Life of Agnes Pyle”. By no means is the book ready. A lot of work is needed to get it…

    Jeremy C Kester

    December 22, 2020
    Blog
    Agnes Pyle, editing, outlining, The Dangerous Life of Agnes Pyle, writing, writing process
  • Get Comfortable

    …just not too comfortable. Like many people, I was introduced to Jordon B Peterson through the events up in Canada surrounding the trans-rights issues and compelled speech laws written in the infamous bill C16 there. Given that to me it sounded like he was having a reasonable argument (that a gov’t should not force people…

    Jeremy C Kester

    December 21, 2020
    Blog
    Carl Jung, evil, good, good vs evil, jordon b peterson, life, Pinocchio, The Lion King
  • The Trick

    The trick of blogging everyday… topics. It’s a skill that I have yet to master. Each day I sit in front of this computer, ready to write in theory, expecting to use the exercise of blogging to grease the wheels of creativity and motivation. Sometimes, a topic pops into my brain and I slog through…

    Jeremy C Kester

    December 20, 2020
    Blog
    blogging, practice, writing, writing process, writing struggle
  • It Ain’t Easy

    Writing is hard. Another morning is passing by as the only accomplishment that can be genuinely claimed is that the seat is warmed. The writer showed up to the job and then sat there… blank. Call it writer’s block or whatever, the fact is that one thing is true: writing is not easy. This isn’t…

    Jeremy C Kester

    December 19, 2020
    Blog
    writer, writersblock, writerslife, writing, writing discipline, writing process, writing struggle
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