Tag: writing process
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Stone Wall
a poem Restarting often feelsLike moving a boulderAgainst a stone wallNeither budgingEffort producing sweatAnd futilityLike Sisyphus strainingEternity facing himI must keep tryingAs pointless as it may be Photo and words copyright © 2026 by Jeremy C Kester – all rights reserved.Note: this is also cross-posted to Poetically Unlicensed on Substack. Please consider subscribing! Even better,…
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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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Quantifiable
A quick essay where I am asking, “how often should I be releasing work on these sites?” There is a question always entering my mind as a creative individual around quantity. How much should one write? How much should one publish? How often should we bother those who are (or might be) our readers? In…
