The colder weather we’ve gotten here in Utah has gotten me thinking once more about reading and writing. Ever since I fell in love with books, I have felt that cold weather and rainy days produce the perfect setting for reading and writing. Perhaps it’s something about throwing blankets over […]
Yearly Archives: 2011
Perhaps you’re curious what I’ve been reading as of late. And perhaps you just do not care. But I’m going to tell you either way – oh, with the exception of some books from my last post. My Goodreads gadget lists many of these books, but not all of them. […]
Recent reading
Perhaps the most frustrating experience in reading is to fall in love with the first book in a children’s series, only to have the series then fall into nothing more than blatant political propaganda. Politics may have a place in books, but that place is not literature for children. This […]
Politics and children’s authors
Let’s see if I can finish off my bio. here; that does mean I may add to this down the road, but it won’t be as another post, just more details to this one. Entering college, I grasped that if I wanted to ever get a novel written, I’d have to […]
History of an alcoholic…I mean…writer pt. 4
I debated all week long whether or not to post something today. As just about everyone knows, it’s the tenth anniversary of the Taliban attacks on the U.S.. I hesitated to post anything because I figure me posting would be like everyone else I’ve seen who’s trying to advertise or […]
September 11
The saga of my writing career continues. By now I’m in my sophomore year of high school and decided not to run cross country that year – I just didn’t feel like running, so I didn’t. Well suddenly my life freed up a little to the point it needed some kind of […]
History of an alcoholic…I mean…writer pt. 3
You remember me? I’m the owner of this blog/site, and you may have read my posts before. But it’s been a month and a half, and I’ve done a lot of tearing down, thinking and growing during that time. It’s about time I get back to writing. I went on […]
Halt! Who goes there?
In my last blog post I talked about what brought me to the point of deciding I want to write for a living. But that’s just the purple prelude to nothing. Like I said, I began experimenting around with some ideas on random loose-leaf paper. Embarrassed to let anyone else […]