Kaizen and Method Writing According to “One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way”, an eBook about Kaizen and self-improvement by Robert Maurier, I need only write a measly ten words...

Below is a chronological listing of the eighteen books I enjoyed reading in 2024. I know it’s not a huge number but I did read the craft books two or three times and also spent a lot of time doing the writing exercises.

Calculosity - were I in you and You in me @markmcclure.eth R71205

This flash fiction (aka microfiction) started out as a journal entry inspired by Jack Grapes’s book on ‘Method Writing’. I cut most of the journal entry before the point where a “transformation line” massage suggested a possible story.

Updated on 2024-10-28 Monday from Tokyo, Japan Wearing a light fleece today; now I know summer’s behind us and winter’s on the way. (Alas, autumn’s getting squished between these two.) Here is a selection of October’s Now moments:

I wrote this method writing journal entry in a Campus pocket notebook with a Pentel Energel pen. Then I typed it up in Visual Studio Code and fixed a few things. The piece is called "Proctoring Lifeology 101" - a test we all get to take; even the truants are not spared ;-)

Years ago rain like this made me feel glad to be alive. I remember getting soaked to the skin coming home from school and then hanging my wet clothes to dry on a line in the scullery. Even a scolding from my mum didn't dampen my spirits. I was too happy dunking chocolate digestive biscuits into a mug of hot tea until the chocolate melted and I could lick it off while the fire in the hearth roared and crackled and sparks jumped onto the iron grate and smoldered for a few seconds.

"My father loved September Morn," Sadako said, her voice almost a whisper. "He only went that day because someone called in sick."

Fiction writer job description: sit in a room and make things up. Here's a handwritten microfiction story inspired by the word "Old".

And here I am again; four more pages.I like this early bird gets the worm way of working.If only I could do it full-time and make a good living out o...