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  • A Ramble on Writing Violence

    I spent the morning writing a story from start to finish. It began as a fairy tale, an old woman and her granddaughter living in a secluded cottage in the woods, blah blah blah, then it devolved into rape, torture, insanity, and murder. Afterwards I went on a run and couldn’t figure out what was…

    pkmcsway

    April 2, 2021
    musings, writing
  • The Thursday before Good Friday

    Well, no story comes to mind. Time to move the fingers. It’s a pretty day. Cool outside, blue sky, some breezes coming and wiping everything clean. The wife weeded the garden and planted a few more azeleas and some other fragrant plants that I don’t know the name of, but with waxy deep green leaves…

    pkmcsway

    April 1, 2021
    musings, writing
  • Audience Unlocks Potential

    From the moment my writing left the privacy of my protected document folder to make its debut to the online public, a new anxiety began seeping into my process. Will they like it? Will they like me? These blog posts — which I never thought of them as beforehand — were a way of getting…

    pkmcsway

    March 31, 2021
    writing
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