SCRAPS!

Surprise! I have officially returned within a week of my last post. While this was intended to be a more “active” website, I’ve found myself feeling very sluggish this March. Not in the sense that I have given up on my profession, but I am being more meticulous with projects. To jump over to The Memory Tourist is to see two articles that, while I’m proud of, aren’t a substantial representation of where I’m at mentally right now. In theory, I should have a more ballooned amount to brag about, but part of my current writing journey is doing what I want to do when I want to. Maybe I need motivation to get back to a regular schedule, thus feel more fulfilled, but that isn’t to say I’ve avoided doing things behind the scenes. To continue on my train from last week, I have some writing projects that are in various states of completion. The prominent focus was my short story collection, still untitled, which has 20 selected works chosen for a potential release. I have read and edited them in ...

At long last, I return. As most people looking at this website and The Memory Tourist will notice, I have not been much in a writing mood. This isn’t because of any scheduling issues, but more that the passion is just not there. After having a substantial February, I decided to pull back a little bit and focus on more long-term projects. What this means is that efforts that usually were put towards keeping up appearances had to be sacrificed for a little bit. That isn’t to say that I don’t want to write something on there between now and the end of the month, but I recognize the plight of having such a long period of solitude. With that said, it feels good to work on a schedule that is ultimately your own. I don’t have the pressure I placed on myself even in 2020, where I needed to have something out everyday and keep on top of things that ranged from exposing new sides of myself with material that was forced or even unnecessary. I’m still not sure I’m a great music critic, but wheneve...