Author Archive: tyunglebower
How to Know If Your Idea is a Good One
You don’t. Sorry for the whiplash. Maybe I can soften the blow a bit and amend that be saying I myself don’t know if my ideas are good anymore, if ever I did “know.” So I have little advice to offer you on your own ideas. For me it’s writing stories and nonfiction books, and …
Neitzsche said “if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.” This, and “god is dead” are the only quotations for Neitzsche I have retained from high school studies. Neither is encouraging, but I am concentrating on the former now. It seems I gaze, if not stare into an …
“Write what you….” No.
“Write what you know,” is the oldest writing advice there is, as far as I can tell. Did it ever apply? Does it still? In a foundational, oblique manner, yes. If one has never once thought about writing before now, and is petrified at the prospect of starting, it’s the first light switch thrown in …
As Fascism Burns Our Stories, Return to the “Campfire” To Save Them
National Parks. Presidential libraries. Museums. The National Archives. All are both vital to the health and success of a free country. And all of them have closed or come under threat by an aspiring tyrant and his billionaire lackey. Who knows what is next? In these times of encroaching authoritarianism and the evils of the …
Choose to Imagine
We think of imagination as an experience that comes to us–invading our tedious everyday to explode a mundane moment on behalf of our spirit. We tend to forget that while “imagination” is a noun, “imagine” is in fact a verb. And like all verbs, in indicates action. While inspiration or creative revery do exist, (and …
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