art
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Among my newfound love for oil pastels and night photography as well as my love of acrylic blowout art work, I’ve found that there is something about the sort of scrapbook style cut and paste art, using magazines to create something wholly original and different that just speaks to me. Being that yesterday was my…
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Over the course of the last few… days I’ve been feeling kind of uninspired and lacking in motovation. As I might have mentioned enough times on this blog that it’s beginning to feel like I’m bragging at this point, I’m certainly not lacking for ideas. As I wrote yesterday, I’ve been working on an outline…
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This might disappoint you to hear, but my first piece of advice actually has nothing to do with writing per se and everything to do with what you do before you start writing. Reading. Nearly every writer that you know would agree that reading is absolutely fundamental to becoming a writer. Now I’m not Stephen…
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It’s a feeling that sneaks up on you. A sensation that creeps upon you when you least expect it. Everything can be fine, normal even, and then it hits you. You’re trapped. Backed into a corner like an animal stuck in a cage. No escape. No way out. Nowhere to run. Nowhere to hide. Stuck…
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I have often felt that writing is the one thing that I would want to do if I could do nothing else in the entire world. A sort of, if you were trapped on a desert island and could only bring several things what would you bring scenario. Writing is what sustains me, it fuels…
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For most of my life, both in adolescence and as an adult, I tended to differentiate between the idea of myself as a writer versus an artist. While many have argued that writing is art, (and it is) I’ve always had a difficult time thinking of myself as an artist™. Intentional or not I’ve often…
