Navigating complex emotions of jealousy, ambition, insecurity, joy, fear, peace, anger, happiness, betrayal, contentment, disappointment, love.
If I’m a fool to trust you, what does that say about you? ~O~O~O~O~O~O~ Nobody’s born suspicious. We trust because we think other people are the way we are. Then someone hurts us and we think everyone else is that way. Treat every suspicious person you meet, gently. Maybe they’ve…
This week on Novelrace, I hit on everything but the novel itself. And I’m trying to eke out insights on writing from this bizarre disorientation.
A tooth extraction and some ouch ouch instead of wisdom.
Today I feel like I’m inside a wellthat no one’s looked down in ten years.And around and just outside the well,it’s Market Day The voices and the sounds, they reach me,blurring into each other and not discernible.It’s not noise, it isn’t sense eitherbut it is painful nostalgia, of what life…
Sometimes I find lessons when I’m dreaming. Sometimes they lead me astray. Just enough to keep me wondering about my dreams. Do you?
If there is a God,then why did he give me wings and a cage?
What was it?
Self-preservation?
Self-respect?
Dignity? Sensibility?
Just my survival skills about love.
I had to ration internet usage this week and ended up concentrating more on Novelrace. It was my first lesson in cutting out distractions while writing.
I received a letter. What I didn’t say changed the conversation she started.
I know the sound of two hands clapping and sometimes I try to figure out the sound of one hand clapping (as the Zen koan goes). But recently I’ve discovered the sound of loneliness. What is the sound of loneliness? It isn’t silence.Some of us actively seek silence. Some of…