Tag: writing
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My Aspirations of Creating a Sitcom
Growing up, whenever bombarded with the obnoxious yet very real question, “What do you want to be when you grow up?”, I would always draw a blank. Then, on my eleventh birthday, I was given an acoustic guitar and my young little world flipped upside down…or maybe right side up for the first time. All I wanted…
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A Writer Writes/Passion Defined
How many days a month do we run on autopilot? Twenty? Twenty-five? My definition, in this scenario, is us going through the motions; coasting with little or no deviation from what needs to be accomplished in our day to day lives. Sure, we got to do what we got to do. I don’t know about…
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Butterflies
The definition of turmoil is a state of great disturbance, confusion or uncertainty. I enjoy this word more than his lesser counterpart, Stress. I favour it like a kick in the teeth as opposed to a kick in the baby maker. I came at this today with the notion of writing on an entirely different…
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Bringing The Funny
Well over two weeks has passed since my last posting and it feels odd that so much time has gone by. I haven’t been lazy! I haven’t lacked creativity! I didn’t even die! What I have been doing is writing and creating way more than I normally do. I have officially begun work on my…
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In Sickness and In Health
As a writer, or just like any other “hobby” or career, one discovers things. One of them is that if I am in a bad mood, cranky or sick then I don’t feel like writing. Using my brain is not a priority in these cases. All I want is quiet, possibly a movie and lots…
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The Habit of Discipline
Sitting, waiting for the wedding of a good friend to start, after just being updated that both the bride’s mother and the groom’s mother are running late. So what’s a man to do? Write a blog, of course. This is my inaugural posting on WordPress, after much frustration with accessing my Blogger account. Both accounts…