Writing – Page 13 – JEFF GARVIN

6 Steps to Creative Fulfillment in 2013

January 20, 2013
Writing

I hate January. I much prefer October. Yup, October is the sweet spot; I’ve spent nine months building up momentum! Whatever’s going to happen during this year is already set in motion. By the time I’m done lamenting letting another Halloween go by without dressing up like Obi-Wan,...

Incantation for Writing

January 20, 2013
Personal, Writing

After I sit down to write, but before my fingers type the first word, I say an incantation to focus my mind and spirit on the creative act before me. Incantation for Writing Today, I write to fill the blank pages I write to meet the unfamiliar parts of myself I write to comfort the disturbed, and...

dreams do not break

November 27, 2012
Personal, Writing

dreams do not die but they do know revenge growing in spite when left unattended wild like the weeds that crack the cold concrete deep like the roots that buckle the street dreams do not fade but absorb every hue making waking a pale, monochrome doom blanching blue sky to pasty beige stucco burning...

Size Matters

November 3, 2012
Fiction, News, Personal, Writing

This week, Writers Digest held a Super Short Story Contest. The rules: write a complete story in 140 characters or less – the length of a tweet. Today, Online Editor Brian Klems announced the winner. It wasn’t me – but my story was reposted (dare I say published?) in the “sampling of some...