Creative process journal

A week ago I started working on the next character who will appear in The Outer World section: Mark. A story about protecting your family, the fear of incompetence, the reverse Dunning-Kruger effect (he knows just enough to understand he doesn’t know enough). Then I revisited something older, for Inner World, it felt like it could be adapted & brought to light: Precision vs Passion, my favorite pendulum. But the week had other plans for me, & everything I’d scheduled as routi

Today I rode a motorcycle for the first time. In a training lot, at walking speed, with an instructor watching. It was a grey Yamaha YBR 125, with a crash bar mounted so close to the gear shifter & the rear brake that I could barely manage to press them. What does this have to do with my creative journal? The more years you accumulate on this planet, the more you gain: experience, pattern recognition, judgment. You get better at things. You optimize. You smooth out the fricti

When you first openly admit you want a website for stories, you open the door for all kinds of monsters to jump in. Stating the ambition out loud is the only way to actually get it done, so the process is both necessary & inevitable. I still wasn’t prepared for what followed. I assume the same is true for any courageous soul trying to build something from nothing. The monsters showed up on cue. I know nothing about building websites: it’ll end up an ugly, half-built, abandone