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Jaqueline Grenier · I remember when I was on the run from myself, and let me tell you; it wasn't fun. · I have always been fascinated with creating worlds since I was a little gremlin, but it wasn't until I wrote some short stories back in 2017. When the pandemic hit, I started to explore my writing ...
Fear and writing
Royce Shook · As a writer, fear has been a constant companion throughout my writing journey. It can often feel overwhelming and debilitating, but I am determined not to let it triumph. · I have explored fear extensively in my writing and how to conquer it, but it's crucial to acknowledge that ...
The Writer’s Life…A Couple Billion Keystrokes And Counting
Jim Murray · I · can’t speak for all writers, because I’m only this one and that’s really all the opinion I am entitled to. · For the past 55 years, all I have ever really known myself to be is a writer. And one of the things I learned about myself as a writer, was that my mind gravitated to ...
The Writer’s Life Is Not For The Feint Of Heart
Jim Murray · First of all let me tell you that I have been a professional writer for close to 50 years. So I’m not cobbling this post together from stuff that I have seen. That’s called editing, and frankly that’s what most blog posts that you see are about. · I live in the world of writers. ...
What It Really Means To Be A Writer
Jim Murray · One of the first tenets of op/ed blogging is to write about what you know. · One of the things I know best is myself. I was lucky enough to discover at a very early age what I wanted to be in life, and that was primarily a writer. · Not a Canadian writer, or a white male writer ...
Living the dream
Royce Shook · It's not the dazzling voice that makes a singer, or clever stories that make a writer. And it's not piles of money that make a tycoon. All of this helps when we are searching for success. Having talent is a good start to success. However, we all know that there are many amazing s ...
What It Really Means To Be A Writer
Jim Murray · One of the first things you learn about op/ed blogging is to write about what you know. · One of the things I know best is myself. I was lucky enough to discover at a very early age what I wanted to be in life, and that was primarily a writer. · Not a Canadian writer, or a white ...
One Writer’s Creative Methodology. Works For Me. Might Even Work For You.
Jim Murray · “I wish I could write you a melody so plainThat would hold you dear lady from going insane · That would ease you and cool you and cease the pain · Of your useless and pointless knowledge” · ~ Bob Dylan, Tombstone Blues ~ · Author in Source Title · There are a number of very good ...
Why I Became A Writer…Anyway.
Robert Cormack · I shouldn’t blame Irving Layton, but I do. · “In Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination.” Irving Layton · If you’re not familiar with Irving Layton, he’s a poet. He’s dead now. He once claimed his poems would survive with the ...
Writer's Block
Royce Shook · Have you ever had writer's block? I have and it is a terrible affliction. · I don't know how or why it comes upon me, but when it does I feel as if a part of my mind has closed and I am floundering in a sea of despair. It may take days for the mood to end, and the desire or the n ...
Meet Philip Kenney Author of The Writer's Crucible: Meditations on Emotion, Being, and Creativity
Norm Goldman · Bookpleasures.com welcomes as our guest Philip Kenney author of The Writer's Crucible: Meditations on Emotion, Being, and Creativity · Norm: Good day Philip and thanks for participating in our interview. · Please tell our readers a little bit about your personal and professional ...
Review: The Writer's Crucible: Meditations on Emotion, Being, and Creativity
Norm Goldman · Writers and other creative people are prone to perfectionism and are rarely pleased with their work. As Philip Kenney points out in the introduction to his The Writer's Crucible: Meditations on Emotion, Being, and Creativity these individuals most likely agonize in solitude and ...
Why we love certain books
Royce Shook · There are books that speak to my soul and feel as if the author knows and understands me. Here is one explanation of why we love certain books. In the plot, we move from one important moment directly to the next – whereas in life there are endless sub-plots that distract and conf ...
Why Humorists Don't Get Writer's Block.
Robert Cormack · Life is too funny to run out of ideas. That's why it's called the Grand Comedy. · “Comedy is acting out optimism.” Robin Williams. · Robin Williams was a very funny guy. What made him funny wasn’t some kind of humour gene. There’s no such thing as a humor gene. His gift was findi ...
"Stop and look at how far you've come..."
Graham🐝 Edwards · This is actually meant to be more reflective than motivational... although let's see where it goes before any rash decisions are made as to what I'm actually talking about. · I "reposted" an old blog a while back that I wrote eighteen prior (it is a personal favourite), and what ...
The Mind’s Eye…Well Worth Any Writer’s Time Developing
Jim Murray · I first got into photography when I started writing screenplays. I have a lot of good ideas for character, dialogue and stories but I felt I was coming up short in I was coming up a bit short in describing the actual scene in which the action was taking place. · Since this is the ...
The Writer's Muse & Where It Lives
Jim Murray · Writers and artists talk often about their muse. The person or thing that buoys their spirit and allows them to take their work to new levels and all that good stuff. · My wife Heather started off being my muse. She would read my work and tell me how exceptional I was, and it wou ...
One Writer's View On Why Bob Dylan Won The Nobel Prize
Jim Murray · A big part of the reason that Bob Dylan received the Nobel Prize for Literature has to do with the nature of his work and the impact it has had over the past 50 years in our culture. · A lot of people look at this event with a bit of a jaundiced eye. These are people who are basi ...
One Writer’s Creative Methodology. Works For Me. Might Even Work For You.
Jim Murray · “I wish I could write you a melody so plain · That would hold you dear lady from going insane · That would ease you and cool you and cease the pain · Of your useless and pointless knowledge” · ~ Bob Dylan, Tombstone Blues ~ · There are a ...
The Writer’s Voice. A Work In Progress
Jim Murray · The older you get the faster the time goes. It sounds like a lamentation, but if you get to a certain age like me and you’re still quite healthy, you start to look at life a little differently. · The Lucky Bastard Principle · You start to think, man, I’m one lucky bastard, especi ...
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