In My Weakness

In my weakness, His strength is made clear. Made obvious. A light to anyone who knew how unable to overcome you were.

Confessions of a Fanfic LIFER

Fanfic writers are born fanfic writers. Plain and simple. There is no other explanation for this carefully hand-written story that I came across the other day.

The Hero Stage

Some days I feel like a child, struggling to express feelings and concepts while only having basic words to work with. These days, every third sentence out of my mouth seems to start with, "Well, Jordan Peterson said..."

Poetry is not Penicillin

I don't know who said it first. I don't know who came up with the idea. I know who passed it on to me, and even from the first it disturbed me. I've fought with it since then, even as some vestige of it taints the enjoyment of my craft and plagues me with guilt.

To Change The Things I Can

There's a funny little aspect of self-hatred I noticed recently and I want to mull it over here. Most of the time, I am focused on how to deflect or negate or block out the horrible things the voice in my head shrieks. Only recently did I start to think, "But it's not entirely wrong."