Tag: anxiety
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Slowing the Pace
Whoa! I have to slow myself down… in a manner of speaking. I’ve blogged about it before, I think on my old site before it had crashed. A friend had sent me a background for my desktop some time ago. A simple background, black with the words, “You keep finding flaws in your writing because…
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Screw Neatness
I have a holdup. A holdup that has been holding me back from my desire to outline. Or to track facts in stories. Or to generally write things down that I need to remember. Perfectionism. It’s a disease, I am certain, this drive to have to be perfect in what I do. Even in notebooks…
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Rules
Here are lessons I have been trying to learn: The answer to most questions is “it depends.” The truth often lies in the middle as our perceptions, our prejudices, etc all can influence what we see. The rule doesn’t mean that there can’t be exceptions. You can’t make rules based solely on the exceptions. Questioning…
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The Purge
It started with my going down the rabbit-hole on YouTube with TedX talks. A few were nice, but it was one that struck me. It was a talk by Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus of The Minimalists. Now, partly due to my watching this video, I am in the midst of a purge. At…
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Another Year; Another Failed NaNoWriMo
It’s T-minus 1 day remaining on NaNoWriMo and I don’t even know where I stand. That is, other than knowing that I just didn’t do well at keeping up with the demands. As I wrote, right in the early stages of it I had to nearly abandon my project because my mind went the way…
Jeremy C Kester 