musings | storytelling nomad

Enjoying this blog. The post on how to get yourself writing by lying to yourself is also worth checking out.

“You have a lot of potential.” Anyone ever said that to you? A lot of my high school teachers told me this. At the time, it kind of sounded ok, I mean, compared to what other people were saying about me. Then I got older. Not all at once, but rather slowly. And I started to realize that this wasn’t a very helpful comment. I tried to define the comment. That’s what older people do. They like to define things, to draw a nice, little mental b … Read More