I’ve taken some time off work to give some overdue focus to the novel. For the past week, I’ve been buried in writing, re-evaluating what I’ve done, doing new research and striking off in new and exciting directions. It’s been a productive five days, I would say, and I feel a renewed sense of passion …
I’m not religious in the traditional sense, but I find endless inspiration in churches. If not for the glory of God, they are, at least, remarkable monuments to the human imagination — the human striving for artistic and architectural perfection, the capture of enormous space, the making of humankind in the image of a universal …
I was at a meditation workshop this past weekend, and found it a gold mine of inspiration for my writing. We did many hours of meditating, and as the noise/clutter of my mind died down into the great quiet, there were these large nuggets of ideas, sitting there. For the first time, I saw the …