Struggling
It can be called writers block or the missing muse, but in the end it all comes down to not feeling that anything about which one reads is interesting enough to make us want to apply our literary skills to it and shape it into something others want to read.
Latest Book Comments
Tony Leather’s stories in "Dancing with the Devil and Other Twisted Tales" all merit a second read. The volume impressed me mightily; it’s one of the best short story collections I’ve read recently – and you can appreciate why you really ought to be buying this book. You will love it, and rightly so.
Getting It Right
I keep on looking hard at the posts submitted by others on triond, and wonder many times if they really understand the use of the English language at all.
Saying So Long to Sheila
The truly awful reality of the writers who want to make SOME money from their work finding triond just too poor in that regard.
Top Target Ambitions
The continuous drive to get into the top tiers pf the triond hierarchy means reaching the targets you set for yourself.
“Notwithstanding”
Diatribe about the writing life, and the ups and downs.
Response to Dan Man Seven Quality Over Quantity
The post by dan man7 was well argued, but it seems to me that not everything about the writing life, or the triond experience, is quite so black and white.
Do Second Acts Exist?
Analysis of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s statement that there are no second acts in American lives.
If You’re Going to Write, Read, Read, Read
There comes a time in every writer’s life when we realize that not only do we want to write for our own love of the vocation, but we also want to be recognized by other writers and readers, and to leave behind a well-crafted legacy of sorts for our lineage. It eventually becomes an undeniable thirst for some, and for others, a test of the willpower to do better, to be the best that our energies and focus will allow. So, how do we get past that realization, and continue on the track of hurdles to our finish line? Here are a few suggestions.
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