Writing Life
Writing Life is the work behind the work.
Here I write from inside the practice of making stories—about endurance, doubt, revision, and the cost of staying with the work when progress is uncertain and outcomes are not guaranteed. These pieces are not instructions or advice, but moments from the messy middle, when the work resists, shifts, or quietly asks for more than expected.
How to Know When Your Writing is Good or Sucks
A personal reflection on perseverance, criticism, and learning how to stay committed to writing when feedback is difficult.
Bliss, Struggles, and Epiphanies: My Two Years in Writing
A two-year reflection on learning to write fiction, from early enthusiasm through struggle and overwhelm to persistence and forward momentum.
How Do You Know When You’re Making Forward Progress
A reflection on measuring real progress in writing, where collaboration, conviction, and adaptability matter more than speed.
Fear, Flight, Hope – The Creation of a Short Story
A behind-the-scenes reflection on writing, revising, and reshaping a short story under creative and structural constraints.
Embracing Light, Shadow, and Darkness to Create Interesting Stories
A writer’s exploration of how embracing light, shadow, and opposition in character development transformed a stalled draft.
Book Cover: Inspiration from Van Gogh’s Art and Life
A behind-the-scenes look at designing a book cover inspired by Van Gogh’s art, mental illness, and the balance between hope and darkness.
Quiet pieces shaped by lived experience.
Moments of pause, noticing, and meaning.
A space for staying with the themes and questions under the story—examining information, systems and assumptions without settling answers.