Tag: publishing
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The Art of Procrastination
There is an art to procrastinating. To waiting until the last minute. Until something is at risk of being late. There is an art to avoiding a task until it simply cannot be ignored any longer. Distraction helps. It introduces conflicting interests. But it is only a small piece of the puzzle. There’s also the…
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A Quick Update
In the spirit of my large-ish post last week, I decided to run a (relatively) quick update on where things stand. While things have happened here on this site, there hasn’t been a whole lot going on in my wider writing world. In fact, pretty much for 6 years, it’s been a drought. After that…
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A Long-Winded, Meandering Treatise On My Writing
Who knows why, but I keep getting stuck. Maybe it’s anxiety; maybe it’s ignorance. Either way, I go back and forth in the wonderful world of writing so often that it’s a wonder that my head hasn’t snapped off. One second I think I have it all figured out, and the next I suddenly “realize”…
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Writing the Excuses 3 – The Publishing Stuff
In keeping with the suggestion I made for myself in my post, “In The Numbers”, I am going to go over the 4 excuses that Dean Wesley Smith listed in his own article that inspired the aforementioned post. In this post, I’ll go over the 3rd excuse: “Excuse #3… What about all the publishing that…
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Institutional
I’ve always had a love-hate relationship with institutions. On one hand, they can be a collective force for a greater good, a group of people working towards something bigger and better than the individuals within. But they can also do evil. They can also be a force that stifles creativity and innovation if favor of…
Jeremy C Kester 