I feel like any value or use found in a post called a leave in for the mind, will still have value a couple years after it was posted. That is the point, isn't it? I posted these leave ins a couple years ago, and feel like they hold up. See what you think. 1.... Continue Reading →
10 thoughts to think over
Ten thoughts I wrote down "Don't translate, answer." Those were the instruction from my Russian professor in college. He wanted his students to answer his questions posed in Russian as responses, not having taken the extra step to translate from Russian to English to Russian to answer. I have something similar in mind with... Continue Reading →
Ten more leave ins for the mind
Ten More Leave-ins for the mind Write your novels, prose and poetry like you don't them back. Leave your writing in the present, and your books in the future. It's the feeling put into the words that count, not the word count. When writing try not to chase, nor attempt to... Continue Reading →
Don’t write your novel, find it – A red apron recipe
“I’m sittin’ in first class and they can all kiss my ass, ‘cuase I’m goin’ back baby, back outta the world.” In Tripio, the protagonist Jay is writing his first novel. It is a road book. One of Jay’s literary heroes in Tripio is Jack “That’s not writing, that’s typing” Kerouac. It is in... Continue Reading →