Tag: essay
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Rebuilding Stamina
I am left winded. Exhausted. I sit there, wondering how I am going to proceed. The whole exercise, as small as it was, put me into the ground. I should be able to do more. How could I not write more than I did? 100 words? That’s nothing, yet it was too much to handle.…
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Pursuit of Voice
Just be yourself. Be authentic. These seem like simple, easy instructions one can and should follow.
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The Practice
When you are a creative person — a writer, a painter, a woodcarver — you crave the very act itself. You need to do it; not unlike the need to eat or drink, more spiritual in a way, it remains as necessary. Rot and despair follow otherwise, only serving to further spin the doom loop.
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The Wrong Solution to the Wrong Problem
Of the many things that one encounters when working in the corporate world is the concept where individuals will work to strange ends to manifest success for a project they wish beyond all measures to implement — sometimes in direct spite to what one might believe is to the betterment of the company. In many…
Jeremy C Kester 