Ideas are wonderful.  They can keep you warm on cold days, give you hope when things look bleak, and they can occupy wonderful minutes as you build and structure ideas with even more ideas. At the end of the day,…

I’ve had a new revelation over my holiday.  Several things have been made clear which were in darkness before, and I have new purpose and a plan for 2018.  Nothing, not a President who doesn’t respect his people, not my…

I might have made a whoopsie. You see, I don’t really draft out, outline, or otherwise plan my writing.  It’s something of both flaw and design feature for my writing.  It keeps me intrigued and animated while I write.  I’m…

Sleep is getting better.  I’ve managed to get down at a consistent time, but I’m still running into trouble.  Part of it is the lack of physical activity, part is the difficulties I’ve touched on earlier.  Maybe it gets better,…

Dynamo has places I want to take it, and I quite frankly like the lead character.  So places it will go. I spent a lot of Wednesday’s post on just chatting, so this one will be more story focused.  To…

BREAKING NEWS:We didn’t elect an alleged sexual predator to the Senate.  African American voters in Alabama: I owe you so much for the joy high I’ve been riding. 2017 has been one enormous, unending dumpster fire.  On a personal, political,…

I don’t make money right now. That happens to lots of people, and for most of them it happens longer than it has for me.  It’s not exactly a unique situation, yet it bears mentioning. I don’t make money right…

Not going to lie.  It’s been a tumultuous week.  I’ve had a lot on my plate since this weekend, and I’m only now starting to come to grips with my new reality.  I’m beginning to make new inroads on what…

A good friend of mine said something yesterday, and it’s something that I can’t stop thinking about. He said that I don’t have “a fire in my belly” when it comes to writing. The concept behind that goes a little…

There won’t be story today.  There might not be story Wednesday either. Creating a story is a work of the mind and the heart acting in concert to inflame the imagination. Right now?  My heart and mind are a million…