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Losing Faith
Have you ever done all the right things, checked all the boxes, filled out all the forms, signed on the dotted line—and still experienced disaster?
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Telling
Maybe it’s that we’re human, but we can all tell our story. Not all of us can tell it with the same degree of passion or generate the same level of interest, but we can usually describe an event and what it meant to us.
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Sometimes the Good Guys Win
How come I can want to do the right thing and be, inside myself, a good person, but both the outside and the inside are broken? How can the universe display such beauty and at the same time such brutality?
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The Right Book Is the Wrong Book
One of the best books I've read so far on writing has been one to say you're probably a crummy writer and you should stay far away from the publishing world.
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Beyond the Bars
I meet with a group of writers every Monday night, and we usually have a short-story competition: we get a writing prompt and we have to develop a story from it in 15 minutes. This is my short story; the writing prompt is the first line in bold, below. Note that I did make a change to the name in the story because the original name was the same as someone I know. Also note that this is the only editing change I made after the story was written. This doesn’t mean that the story is perfect, but I wanted you to see the first draft of what will become…
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Surfing the Avalanche
This week think about the ways you are avoiding help and change. Maybe you think you can do it alone, or maybe you think you must. I can't convince you outright, I think, to step out. If you're convinced of your own hopelessness, then what are my words going to do to change that? But if there's the slightest hint of light, the weakest desire for change, I urge you to find a group who will love you unconditionally and support you without shame.
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Jean-Paul Sartre’s Cooking Diary
In which the ennui of existence translates to a series of uninspired yet necessary meals.
