The Working Writer

Whether your a twitter follower (@DailyCreativeWr) or a facebook fan (https://www.facebook.com/seawritemedia) or just one of my loyal friends, here’s the place where I get down and dirty and actually write. Here’s the place where you’ll find travel essays and poems, book excerpts and the fruits of short writing exercises. Maybe I’ll post the pages of the screenplay I’ve been working on since college (hint: it’s about a catastrophe involving the Chunnel) or a paragraph or two of orphan description or dialogue in search of a story to call home. It’s all here. Please let me know what you think, I’d love to hear from you!

The Glass Is Already Broken

No one can dodge dark times, so let the inevitability of failure and pain liberate your writing.

When the Times Go A-Changing

Sometimes the string snaps, the camel breaks a back, and that last straw hits the ground with the force of a nuclear bomb.

Fate and Luck and Circumstance

“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us…” Joseph Campbell

Missing Persons and Voluntary Hermitage

Though many of us who self-identify as writers and creatives do what we do because we must, sometimes real life is a worthy (if not insurmountable) opponent.

“When It’s Time to Change, It’s Time to Rearrange…”

Sometimes you need to recalibrate your settings and realize that all those cliché’s about serving too many masters and burning candles at both ends have a point – we can only accomplish so much at any given time.

A Pocketful of Crackers

Sometimes you find yourself creatively incapacitated, painfully aware you only have yourself to blame.

Context and Counterarguments

When everyone has access to the information, everyone is empowered and justice becomes not only tangible, but attainable.

Mad-Hatted Mischief

Online, your audience is only limited by your bandwidth

But sometimes, just when you’re prepared to take down a trolling commentator or other various troglodytes, the comments streams overwhelms you. Could all these people really believe the idiotic things they’re writing? Could there really be this many racist, homophobe misogynist ass-wipes in the world?

Speak Up Already!

As I get older, I realize more and more that the ability to speak your mind is at the heart of living authentically. We must, in the words of Eleanor Roosevelt, “do the thing that must be done.” We must tell the truth even if it hurts. We must speak our minds, even when it’s uncomfortable.

Musings on the Golden Hour

I’ve talked before about taking time-outs to fill up the creative well, and federally recognized holidays are always a great time to cash in some vacation days and take much needed time off.

the daily creative writer

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed…”