I’m trying to reduce the friction for peripheral writing while attempting to focus on the main train–the completion of additions and editing for Book #3, now in active revision towards publication–in a year, maybe. So if you subscribe to Fragments via email, you might find the substack consumption as or more rewarding in the next […]
Category Archives: WordAndImages
A Pocket Full of Seeds…
…is not a garden. And maybe 75 stories, essays and sylvan ramblings does not make a book. That is the judgment, I think, in the minds and profit-making needs of perhaps most publishers of books. They are used to (and see their readers as being willing to pay for) books where Part A leads to […]
Status: UNK
That’s not exactly right. FUTURE status UNK, but when is that not the case? Just sometimes more UNK than others. And we are in one of those times, I suppose, on Goose Creek and on Planet Earth. Where do we go from here? Our time and energy of late has been centered around the (now […]
Blogging: Of Language and Light
You’ve known people, surely, that if they had to keep their hands in their pockets, they couldn’t tell a story. I’ve just realized that part the reason for the dearth of blog posts over the past year is because I’ve had to keep my hands in my pockets. Photoshop 5 (at the end of more […]
Finding One’s Place
The title is the name of the first section of what I once imagined–and still sometimes am certain–will be a book whose title will be “One Place Understood.” The first chapter is Finding Floyd. When I wrote this in early 2016, I was making good progress and had a clear vision of the end for […]