Author Archive: tyunglebower

Enter the Ritual

Many writers have rituals they go through before they begin to write, or while in the midst of doing so. Despite my being a creature of habit to a large extent, I don’t generally go through any writing rituals. I have a few rituals for when I am performing on stage. I don’t do anything …

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(Don’t) Make Them Pay

When I was in the planning stages of starting my local Introverts Meetup, some suggested I require a nominal fee to attend the meetings. The argument was that nobody who signed up for the group would feel obligated to honor their “yes” RSVPs if they didn’t have a financial investment in the group. When I …

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What I Know About the Navy Yard Shooting

Sometimes you go numb, and sometimes you get pissed off. Maybe it’s because this Navy Yard shooting is so close to home for me, or maybe it was just time for me to be pissed, but pissed I am. I don’t know anymore about what happened than anybody outside of authorities knows at this point. …

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Behold!

Behold! Behold what, exactly? At the moment, my written thoughts on the word “behold”. Not that my writings are so profound that they are something to truly “behold” in the strictest sense. But that is exactly my point. The vast majority of our lives fail to live up to the uses of the word “behold”. …

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General Writing Update

I haven’t posted one of these in a while. So here is where my writing stands at the moment: -I seem to have found a way to get Novel 2 back on some kind of track for the foreseeable future. For the last week or so I have spent time most days rewriting certain sections of …

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