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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
  • Narrow

    We live in a very narrow field. Our planet in on a narrow band within a star system. Our bodies must maintain a very narrow temperature range with our own body only able to manage a slightly less narrow range without the aid of our inventions. What we see falls in a narrow band of…

    Jeremy C Kester

    September 25, 2019
    Blog
    anxiety, belonging, life, prose, understanding, writing
  • A Year Lost

    It has been a year and 6 days since I had suspended my daily writing goals. Things happened and only recently have I sat down, stopped making excuses, and started the writing daily goal once again. A year was lost to my excuses. Now sure, I wrote during this year between today and when I…

    Jeremy C Kester

    September 24, 2019
    Blog
    life, procrastination, stoicism, writing
  • Words Words Words

    Words Words Words

    I’ve been capturing my word counts every day for every project with consistency since the beginning of last year. Before that, it was a sporadic practice, without the detail that I record today. It’s a practice that I have made a mainstay in my writing life. Why? This is the way I know exactly how…

    Jeremy C Kester

    September 23, 2019
    Blog
    metrics, self improvement, word count, writing, writing process
  • Repeat

    Repetition is key. Every day, do something to improve yourself. And repeat it. Every. Day. Trying to learn to play an instrument? Practice every day. Repeat the habit until it feels unnatural to not play. Want to learn a language? Speak it. Every. Day. Repetition breeds learning. It breeds behavior. Nothing that is truly worth…

    Jeremy C Kester

    September 22, 2019
    Blog
    change, chasing dreams, habit, learning, philosophy, stoicism
  • Habitual

    Habit is that thing that you often do without thinking. Often we only think about habit when it is an inconvenience, when it is something that we want to expunge from our life. And while we identify these habits as the obstacles in the way of progress, such as smoking, or such as my pot-a-day…

    Jeremy C Kester

    September 21, 2019
    Blog
    anxiety, coffee, fear, habit, life, response, writing
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