When the Job is Too Big Right now, my main goal for the coming weeks is to revise and edit a piece I first wrote about a year ago. I’ve had some insight and advice on how to improve it, and even in the earlier (I don’t think all that great) draft, some people have […]

Patterns I’ve been taking an online class about Joseph Campbell’s monomyth and archetypal journey.  It’s the idea that most or all stories follow the same basic pattern.

First, some news I’ve set up a Facebook Group, called “Chapter One, Page One” linked to this blog.  I feel that Facebook has a better set up for conversations and comments.  I’m hoping, eventually, people will join and discuss what troubles they are having.  It is kind of tough starting this journey.  I know I […]

False Starts I have put off this journey for far too long.  For more than a decade, I’ve been on-and-off with my motivation.  Here are a couple examples…

What is this? So I spontaneously, sort of, decided to get a writing blog.  Actually, it’s something I’ve thought about for a while, but didn’t think I would do.  So then there I was, sort of late evening on a Sunday.  Let me look up an article on how to make a writing blog.  Then […]