This is where I write.

All my life, I have been indecisive, taking excessive consideration with each and every decision, no matter the breadth. And yet, long after the conclusion, I seem to allow my mind to become commandeered with thoughts of alternative scenarios and outcomes, if only I had chosen differently.

1. Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy 2. Submissive to everything, open, listening 3. Try never get drunk outside yr own house 4. Be in love with yr life 5. Something that you feel will find its own form 6. Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind 7. Blow as deep as you want to blow 8. Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind 9. The unspeakable visions of the individual 10. No time for poetry but exactly what is 11. Visionary tics shivering in the chest 12. In tranced fixation dreaming upon object before you 13. Remove literary, grammatical...

Write. Put one word after another. Find the right word, put it down. Finish what you’re writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it. Put it aside. Read it pretending you’ve never read it before. Show it to friends whose opinion you respect and who like the kind of thing that this is. Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong. Fix it. Remember that, sooner or later, before it ever reaches perfection,...

Take a pencil to write with on aeroplanes. Pens leak. But if the pencil breaks, you can’t sharpen it on the plane, because you can’t take knives with you. Therefore: take two pencils. If both pencils break, you can do a rough sharpening job with a nail file of the metal or glass type. Take something to write on. Paper is good. In a pinch, pieces of wood or your arm will do. If you’re using a computer, always safeguard new text with a ­memory stick. Do back exercises. Pain is distracting. Hold the reader’s attention. (This is likely to work better if you can hold your own.)...

Work on one thing at a time until finished. Start no more new books, add no more new material to “Black Spring.” Don’t be nervous. Work calmly, joyously, recklessly on whatever is in hand. Work according to the program and not according to mood. Stop at the appointed time! When you can’t create you can work. Cement a little every day, rather than add new fertilizers. Keep human! See people; go places, drink if you feel like it. Don’t be a draught-horse! Work with pleasure only. Discard the Program when you feel like it–but go back to it the next day. Concentrate....

For several months, I've been asking my friend, Tracey Lynn Tobin to let me interview her. For those of you who aren't aware, Tracey is a gifted writer and blogger who claims to have an unhealthy obsession with zombies. Her book, Nowhere To Hide, went on sale on Amazon.com in October of 2014. She also has a fantastic blog, No Page Left Blank.

Forget all the rules. Forget about being published. Write for yourself and celebrate writing. -- Melinda Haynes

Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer. -- Barbara Kingsolver

If I had a dollar for every one of the ridiculous humanities writing assignments I was given while in college, I'd be fabulously wealthy. Here is a small sampling of the many humanities writing assignments I remember being given while in college. If I had my way, I would have written essays filled with snappy answers to the assignments to mock their ridiculousness.

An age-old question that has been asked of writers is, "What made you decide to become a writer?" The answer isn't always easy to explain; every writer wants their writing to be read, and appreciated, but few writers enjoy explaining how or why they write.

I will write factual, complete, and detailed accounts of the human experience, or my life events. I will do so without permission, and doing so for nothing more than to chase my passion, and regardless of the opinion of others. Above all else, no time and no words shall I waste. Colophon Cover image was a public domain photograph, taken circa 1910, courtesy of The Library Of Congress. This post was inspired by The Writer’s Manifesto: Stop Writing to Be Read & Adored, written by Jeff Goins. Asides How To Spread Your Ideas: Write A Manifesto

I spent all afternoon yesterday hopelessly agonizing over my writing, trying to write down anything but the words would not come. - Excerpt from my writing notebook, July 28, 2014 @ 11:00 AM. There are times in the lives of every writer when they inevitably feel like they are not good enough, or their writing is somehow inferior or sub-par. Writers tend to be perfectionists when it comes to their writing, myself included.

Sometimes I feel as if I am lost in the pages of a book about my own life, filled with the jaded ramblings of a madman. The world not as it seems as arcane symbolism seeks the truth of higher meaning.

I have already written quotes about why I write, what inspires me to write as well as suggestions and prompts, and I have even given advice to aspiring writers everywhere. This is how I write.