Category: Writers & Writing

  • Redefining the Publish Paradigm

    Redefining the Publish Paradigm

    I love language, words, sentences and how those elemental jewels arrive together to create stories, narratives, coherent streams of meaning. I love the human longing for, propensity toward, mastery of crafting infinite variations of these worlds. I love that I’ve been blessed with the writerly fascination with finding that coherence in everything, in forever wondering…

  • On the Age, Size, and Expressions of Aspens

    On the Age, Size, and Expressions of Aspens

    Most of our campsite on the Grand Mesa in Western Colorado is surrounded by young aspen trees, 5 to 10 feet tall. Here in late September, their dancing leaves present every variety of gold: pure, stunning, solid gold that pops in the golden sunlight, all gradations of green-gold, including that gentle green of leaves with…

  • How my writing demons point the way forward

    How my writing demons point the way forward

    I write constantly. My writing demons help. Usually, I write with my expensive fountain pen collection, occasionally at a keyboard on my Mac or iPad, and rarely by dictating audio recordings. I have thousands of handwritten pages and thousands more e-notes, on hundreds of topics and themes, created over the last decade or so. Some days…