Tag: anxiety
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Why I am Failing as a Writer: Part 3 – Expectations
Oh, this one hit me! Unlike the prior entry in Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s continuing series on “How Writers Fail”, this one made me pause and think. To fill you in, Writer Kristine Kathryn Rusch has been releasing a topical series on her Business Musings portion of her site called “How Writers Fail”. Each essay or…
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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…
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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…
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Revival
Much of December, I thought. Thought about writing. Thought about what I want to write, why I am writing, etc. I wrote little during this process, yet the exercise was largely necessary. In a way, a break was needed; time to reflect was needed. Part of the issue was my site and writing essays (or…
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Resistance – 1; Jeremy – 0
It seems that lately, though my Muse has been tickling my ear, my motivation to write has been absent. Where it went, who knows? Maybe it is out getting a few drinks. Maybe it has gone to find coffee to wake its ass up. Or perhaps it was taken hostage by that nefarious entity Steven…
Jeremy C Kester 