“There were none of those thousand sources of irritation that the ingenuity of civilized man has created to mar his own felicity.” Herman Melville from Typee
“There were none of those thousand sources of irritation that the ingenuity of civilized man has created to mar his own felicity.” Herman Melville from Typee
Happy Everyone now and then I think about revising my first novel, Tripio. I’m guessing that I am not alone in this, especially on one’s first novel. When I actually voiced this over a phone call to my book producer, who I worked with on the Trier, his response was that a lot of …
The Trier Tour’24 Gets Underway This Weekend
Don’t call me that Oscar Wilde once said that some things are too important to be taken seriously. That captures how I go about writing. And to prove it, as I write this post I’m thinking about Monty Python’s Oscar Wilde sketch, and not any of Wilde’s plays, novels, and further wisdoms. And …
With the overwhelming amount of information available to us, we are more reliant than ever on categorization, labels and shortcuts- these can bring us a sense of security in shrinking the world to make it more manageable- A writer does not value safety or sameness. A label This quote from Rick Rubin has been …
The object isn’t to make art, it’s to be in that wonderful state that makes art inevitable. Finding my voice This morning I am reviewing my 5th Chakra. You heard me right. It is snowing and cold. I just wrote in …
A river of material runs through us. When we share our work and ideas, we are replenished. …
Writing practice I spent several hours yesterday morning actually writing. Sitting on my chair at my laptop grinding away on some plot points on my follow up to The Trier. For the record the working title is The Trier goes to London. It is set in 1675, or thereabouts, because that was the year …
Your relationship with a piece has many layers. As you move through the layers, you see clearer and it sinks into your system. And then you liberate yourself in a healthy way from the technical necessities of the piece. That is when you make music.” Anne-Sophie Mutter, a world-renowned German violinist Layers I …
That Wonderful State The object isn’t to make art, it’s to be in That wonderful state that makes art inevitable. …
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