Spencer Richard's Blog, page 2
March 29, 2015
New Life Philosophy: I Do What I Want
Recently, I finished reading a book by Gretchen Rubin on habits called, “Better Than Before”. It was a challenging read, if only because it caused me to ponder ceaselessly about myself, and I find the task of self-knowledge to be a very serious challenge indeed. Every once in a while there comes a real light […]
March 25, 2015
How the Bark is Worse
The man was waiting for her when she came home, waiting in the dark as she snuck back through the window from which she left, slid it closed again, and threw her hair back, wet from rain. If there were tears he couldn’t tell. He flipped the light switch by the tableand she became somehow […]
March 21, 2015
Writer, Heal Thyself
It’s been almost two months since I wrote for my website. This may be because the last few things I’ve written have had some severe negative influences, especially the last article in which I talk about my history of self-harm. So I sit down today to work on my novel, which is about the only […]
January 29, 2015
Self-Harm
When I was a teenager, there was a period in time that I physically harmed myself. I was never extreme as one might think, since even the words self-harm conjure up a thousand horrors, but I got into the habit of getting depressed, purposefully tripping myself to fall onto rocks or down steps, rapping my […]
January 19, 2015
6 Damn Years
“So, what’s it about?” RyanBradleyhas been writing this novel for sixdamn years. Since he started writing the novel a lot of things have changed, not the least of which being his disposition towards novel writing. He can still remember the first time he sat down to embark on this wicked adventure. Jump back to the […]
January 10, 2015
Why I Write (And Other Reasons to Live)
This is a loaded article. ‘Why I write’ is the sort of thing that could set me off into a diatribe of such self-focused, self-congratulatory, ego-maniacal deliberation that I wake up two days later in a daze like I was drunk on wine. ‘Why I write’ is dependent on how I understand my self as […]
December 23, 2014
No Apologies
Watch it on Youtube. Well it’s almost Christmas. I wanted this song to be more upbeat from its original inception, I even recorded to a metronome and tried to have drums. Alas, nothing I tried seemed to work. The song seemed good as it was. That and I really don’t have the technical know-how to […]
December 12, 2014
An Experiment In Giving
Deep down I can be a real asshole. This is no revelation to some of you, I’m sure. I remember an event when I was nineteen years old. To put some context: nineteen years old, I was living at my parents place. I never graduated with my high school class because I did not yet […]
December 4, 2014
Manhood
Watch it on Youtube. A song directed at the men of this generation, of which I am of course included. Hopefully this helps keep the conversation going about things like rape culture, as well as bring attention to the general unfairness that women experience on a day to day basis on the matter of physical […]
November 30, 2014
Walking Obituary
Ina place,let’s call itAtlanta,there is a boywalkingthrough some shitty neighbourhood at midnight because his mom started seeing his dad again. There aren’t any back alleys or anything and it’s cooler at this time of night.He’s leaving tomeet with his buddies because they’re older and they’ve seen everything. They’ve even seenwhat he’s seen. They’ve seen their […]
