Rick Killian
Lessons from a ghost . . .
Has the publishing industry capsized?
If you are an author, a writer, or even have an idea for a book, there are some things you should know about the world of publishing today. Namely, it is that the importance of getting published may have changed by 180 degrees to the way it was when I became an editor...
Read moreThe muses love mornings.
—Benjamin Franklin
“Sometimes you have to write to figure it out…”
The above commencement address holds some great insight about both writing and life. In case you don't have fifteen minutes to listen to the entire thing, here are some of my favorite bits from his story about a conversation with...
Read moreIt may be that when we no longer know which way to go that we have come to our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.
Wendell Berry
The Art of Essaying
The word essay comes from French for “to try.” Many, perhaps because of getting assigned lame essays in high school (though none of my teacher friends do that, thank God! 🙂 ), think of essay writing as a tedious rehashings of things we’ve already learned. However,...
Read moreIf you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out and sent rambling. You must write every single day of your life. You must read dreadful dumb books and glorious books, and let them wrestle in beautiful fights inside your head, vulgar one moment, brilliant the next. You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads. I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon you. May you live with hysteria, and out of it make fine stories—science fiction or otherwise. Which finally means, may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.
Ray Bradbury
Are you living a shadow of what you are called to be?
Are you living the shadow life? Here is a simple test. Answer these two questions: What makes you feel most alive and improves the well being of others? Are you doing whatever that is on a regular basis? If you find it hard to answer the first question—or your answer...
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