R.J. Young's Blog, page 29

What were they thinking?

I got dressed early. I didn't want to be late. I wanted to arrive as early as could be appropriate....

Freelance writing is some scary shit

I'm a freelance writer. In other words, I write for food. That is what I do. One of the...

Artists; others

Artist,
As artists we are all in need of a little encouragement, a little more motivation and a...

Beautiful blogger

Andrew Sullivan has taken this gorgeous miracle called the Internet and made it into a grand...

Yann Martel teaches

You can learn a lot from Yann Martel. This Canadian novelist is bettered versed in the ways of the...

Write as rain

As I type these words I can hear the rhythmic sounds of water pattering against my window; rain is...

In time

Everyday that you wake up unpublished and unheralded is a day to be fortified, to be measured. It...

Kerouacian

I remember it clearly. It was the day one of my great friends, Abraham El Raheb, and I perused the...

A bit of magic

This is what we live for as writers: the notion that we have hit the nail on its head with the...

The power of words

As someone who makes half of a life writing — and hopes to one day make a full life of writing...