Tag: Writing

  • I will write a novel in 30 days.

    Before the end of the year, I will have completed my first novel. I have not started it yet. Writing a book is something I have always wanted to do. When I was 10 I decided I wanted to be a novelist for a living. When I was 11 I decided that would be too…

  • Waiting for November

    Thoughts turn to poetry that rhymes and pretty girls that taunt his mind If he waits until he’s ready What if ready doesn’t come A trilogy of thoughts clogs his heart Fifty-thousand words in 30 days A writer’s blocked-up mind can only think of red candles and voices in his head This one-bedroom isn’t big…

  • 10 years ago | 10 years later

    Written on August 29, 1994: In ten years I would like to be out of college and married. [10-year-later update: I was 4 years out of college, and I was married exactly 10 years and 6 days after this was written] I want to be a journalist at a large newspaper, perhaps writing editorials. [10-year-later…