Religion and Politics and a Cover Upgrade! (Hardback coming soon!)

Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! Politics and Religion. Religion and politics. The advice is not to talk about it in polite company. So I wrote a book centered on faith and religion, and I’m writing a book about politics, power, and the self-serving nature of rulers. These are the choices of the writer …

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Restraint and Discernment : A Writer’s Thoughts for the Week

Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! This blog brought to you by Florence and the Machine’s High as Hope album. And some of Ceremonials. What The Water Gave Me is fantastic. Two big thoughts this week. (Not legitimately big, just the two discrete subjects I want to briefly discuss. Discreetly.) 1) The internet can …

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Riffing on Writing as an Art and Craft – Inspiration in the face of AI Impersonation

Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! I missed last week. I thought about putting out a quick blast for the sake of keeping up with weekly output, but decided not to. Better silence than thoughtless blather, I hope! I have been watching lots of writerly videos on You Tube this week. Yes, this is …

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What to write next? Time to trust the artistic gut

Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! I’ve been doing some thinking recently. (Don’t we all? Don’t we all engage in thinking constantly? What does that phrase really mean, when you think about it?) I’ll start again. I have been engaging in a form of creative introspection recently. Life has been throwing distractions and stresses …

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Riffing on Writing as the Inescapable Self

Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! Last week I talked about trying to remove yourself, or at least your ego, from your writing, to embrace the other, to try to express viewpoints alien from your own. This week, I will entertain a rather different idea. That you cannot escape yourself: that everywhere you go, …

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