Category Archives: the creative process

Found on the way to something else

The things you find while researching – well rummaging for something else: If the role of the bard is to listen to, learn about, speak and sing of spiritual realms and their inhabitants, and that of the ovate is to … Continue reading →

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What Day is it?

Well, it’s day seven of seven at work, day 15 of November, day 15 of NaNoWriMo – the halfway point in fact. Going into the day I was behind in word count. The past couple days, with all the world … Continue reading →

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Duty and purpose – for the quote box

There is nothing in the universe that I fear, but that I shall not know all my duty, or shall fail to do it. — Mary Lyon Via The Writers Almanac, re Mary Lyon, founder of Mount Holyoke Female Seminary.

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Day 7 aka Saturday

After not being able to settle down at home and write anything, I got ready to go and took a nice leisurely drive south through Ghent and places south to Annandale-on-Hudson and Bard College. Beautiful views of the Catskills on … Continue reading →

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The Good Work – aka The Work ie., Do The Work

This one was worth doing the re-wind for, via NYTimes: I really love working…Most people they want hit records because that’s how they make their money but you know what I realized is that I don’t care about hit records … Continue reading →

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