Tag: writer
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Balance
All in? All out? Full speed or full stop? It seems difficult to decide between the two options, as though there is only two options. My writing life has been one extreme or the other, like trying to drive a car through a crowded city with only two options: slamming one’s foot onto the gas…
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Barriers
We are our own barriers. Even the barriers in the way, we obsess over them. We choose to see them as such, allowing them to block us, to keep us from moving forward. Yes, they prevent us from one thing or another, but it is we who choose to let it stop us in our…
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For Me or For Thee?
There is a question in writing and creativity on who it is that the artist is creating for. Should the artist create for themselves, or should they create for others? Reasons for both abound. But which is best? I’ve thought about this question a lot after hitting another wall in my writing. Days of non-writing…
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It’s Been a While… Again
Yes, it has. A few weeks this time. Let’s just say, that it has been a weird struggle for me these last few weeks, taking me much too long to get over whatever this latest problem was — this latest drought of productivity in writing. This latest bout with that demon called writer’s block (also…
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Why Not Now?
This is a question that I must start asking myself: why not now? In this world where we all believe that we must reach some arbitrary point, hit some milestone, gain some of whatever before we can do what it is we want, what is it that is really stopping us? Fear. Anxiety. Procrastination. Distraction.…
Jeremy C Kester 