You may have noticed a silence lately emanating from my blog. Words missing. Subscribers slipping. A blog on the verge of extinction. But, it couldn’t be the farthest from the truth. I’ve just migrated over to the Medium blogging platform that has a wider audience than mine. Medium is a community within many communities. Topics… Continue reading
I used to wait until I had a headline before writing a blog post but realized a headline corrals your thoughts. Sometimes you need to let your thoughts run free. See where they lead you, not follow where your headline tells them to go. That’s when I have the most fun writing—when I let my… Continue reading
I’ve always had trouble finding my way from Point A to Point B and often end up at Point Z. With thoughts in a constant state of flux, the only way to anchor them is to purge them onto paper. If I didn’t write, my backed-up brain would need an enema. It’s hard for thoughts to stay in one… Continue reading
| Moment Catchers | Word Shapers | Many of us didn’t choose to become writers. Writing became us. It is an intricate part of who we are that inspires us to become better writers and therefore better people. Writing is therapy, a self-motivating, actualizing process that helps us understand the world and ourselves, by observing then… Continue reading
I tried writing a blog post today and ended up floating through social media sites, adhering to the parameters of my short attention span. On Twitter, I attempted to write 140 characters of prose for the 1st-line Wednesday hashtag game. Instead, I wrote 116 characters, which included the hashtag #1linewed, falling short of my 500-word goal. Writing is hard…. Continue reading