Category Archives: Writing

I’ll Tell You About My Drafts Folder If You’ll Tell Me About Yours

In: Writing

Edited in August 2020 to include links to finished posts.  It’s been a long time since this blog published a lighthearted writing post, so let’s change that.  Lately, I’ve been gently poking my drafts folder and trying to decide which posts in there, if any, are ready to finish and share with the world. On… Read More

Put Down Your Phone and Pay Attention

In: Mindfulness and Meditation, Writing

Today I’d like to talk to you about mindfulness, brainstorming, and what house wrens are really capable of. (If descriptions of the non-Disney side of the natural world are disturbing to you, consider this a content warning). No, I’m not anti-technology, and this isn’t a rant. Smart phones have brought many positive changes to modern… Read More

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We Need Movies About Blogging

In: Writing

Today’s post is going to be short and sweet. As I’ve said here before, I don’t believe in stretching out my words if a few hundred of them will suffice. Someone found this site recently by doing a search for movies about blogging. Normally, queries like this happen because of something I blogged about in… Read More

The Joy of Writing Six-Word Stories

In: Science Fiction and Fantasy, Writing

How many of you have ever written a six-word story, twitterature, dribble, minisaga, drabble, or other piece of flash fiction? What all of these terms share in common is the idea of fitting a full-formed story in a much smaller amount of space than is generally used for even short forms of storytelling. It might be… Read More

My Top Five Distractions and How I Deal with Them

In: Writing

Unless you happen to living in a hut in the middle of a forest that happens to be filled with silent animals, you’re eventually going to run into things that distract you as you’re writing or doing other work. Dealing with these distractions is of the challenging parts of my average day, so today I… Read More