I realized a few days ago that I never wrote my annual goals post for 2017. I usually do it around January 1st but that day…
Writing
A post in which I answer the question, “Garen, are you doing any writing lately?”
January 20, 2017I’m always super grateful when people ask me how my writing is going. And that’s not just a hollow platitude. I seriously do appreciate it. Here’s…
So I’ve been wanting to write a poem for a while now. It’s one form of the written word that I haven’t attempted since probably junior…
This has been a weird week. I’ve got a serious case of back-from-vacation blues and a minor case of food poisoning. There was a major windstorm…
These are the first words I’ve written in days. There is something called NaNoWriMo happening right now. I think I’m supposed to be writing a novel…
As promised, this week’s blog post is brief. The end of week one of NaNoWriMo is drawing near and I am behind schedule. I had hoped…
I’m in the final stretch of editing my novel. I am very happy to be typing that sentence, but at the same time I am starting…
It’s been over two months since I last posted an update about the novel. Exciting things are happening, and I feel the need to share. First…
I’m serious. Where’s my coffee? This week’s post marks the halfway point of the year commitment I made to Scriven by Garen. I have been writing…
I’ve been feeling a bit low these past couple of days. It’s a funk I get into every now and then when things aren’t going how…
I almost didn’t write a post this week. My manuscript needs my attention now, and it’s hard to find time to write. When I do scrounge…
This is going to be a short post. The reason: I have a lot of work to do. Why do I have a lot of work…
A week ago I got really angry. Seven days later and every time I think about it I start to get angry all over again. So…
I read an NPR Books article yesterday on Nancy Reisman’s novel Trompe L’Oeil. I was initially drawn to the review because the book’s title is an art…
I’ve never been a very good employee. Oh sure, I am conscientious, and I get my work done on time and to the best of my…
Think outside the box. It’s a platitude that’s meant to stir the creative mind. Don’t give in to convention, step outside the everyday, be true to…
It’s already been a month since Bean was born. March is usually a slow moving time for me, the last long slog toward spring, but this…
Perhaps the most surprising thing I’ve learned about this writing a novel thing is that the actual creative act of stringing nearly 90,000 words together into…
Some days on this writing journey of mine (okay, most days) I feel like a bit of a faker. There are certain professions when the transition…
As of this morning I’m less than three weeks out from my due date with my second child. His or her imminent arrival fills me with…
A few well-meaning people, when I told them I was writing a novel, replied in what is decidedly one of my least favorite ways: “I would…
In a now famous commencement speech delivered in 2012 to the graduating class of Philadelphia’s University of the Arts my favorite author Neil Gaiman eloquently elaborated on the…