Tag: writerslife

• 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.…

  Jeremy C Kester

  November 12, 2025

  Blog, Essays

  authenticity, essay, independent writing, life, practice, self publishing, stamina, thoughts, writer, writers block, writerslife, writing

• What It Is To Burn

  

  There is fire here So often smoldering Hiding Waiting

  Jeremy C Kester

  October 8, 2025

  Poems

  anger, contemporary poem, emotions, independent writing, life, poem, poet, poetry, writerslife, writing

• Hope

  

  I fail to understand sometimes How desire and ambition fail How easy it is for fear to forward Its agenda for the way I live

  Jeremy C Kester

  October 1, 2025

  Poems

  contemporary poem, independent writing, life, life lessons, poem, poet, poetry, writerslife, writing

• Pursuit of Voice

  

  Just be yourself. Be authentic. These seem like simple, easy instructions one can and should follow.

  Jeremy C Kester

  August 12, 2025

  Blog, Essays

  authenticity, essay, independent writing, life, self publishing, thoughts, voice, writer, writerslife, writing

• What Makes…?

  

  Is this an essay? Or a poem?

  Jeremy C Kester

  July 30, 2025

  Blog, Essays

  contemporary poem, essay, independent writing, life, poem, self publishing, thoughts, writer, writerslife, writing