On writing and the “busy” life
Beware the barrenness of a busy life. ~ Socrates "Temple Garden" by Paul Klee Busyness has been the order of the day for me now for quite some time, and hence, there has not been much action at...
View ArticleOn fall and time and letting go
Sumac Red From time to time I come across an article about “the writing life.” Occasionally I will even read one, or parts at least. When I do, I seldom recognize much that is familiar from my own...
View ArticleThoreau Thursday
It is the unflagging beauty of the writing, day after day, that confirms [Thoreau's Journals] greatness among writers’ journals. ~ Alfred Kazin Here in the North Country, duck season has opened. In...
View ArticleOn writing and the Underwood 319
Underwood 319 When I first began writing seriously, it was on borrowed manual typewriters… the portable kind. For those who grew up typing, not keyboarding, there is a nostalgic-comforting sound to old...
View ArticlePoem: “Ex Nihilo” by Mark Hinton
keys Poets end up writing about the writing process because they spend so much time thinking and wondering about it. It is the same reason Hollywood ends up making movies about making movies. We...
View ArticleHugh’s Journals
The Rev. Hugh B. Jones’s Notebooks The feature Hugh’s Journals has appeared here on Sundays. For some basic background on Rev. Hugh Bebb Jones and his notebooks click here. It has been awhile since I...
View ArticleBook Review: I, The Jury by Mickey Spillane
some cover art For the past six weeks I have been re-reading the original six Mike Hammer novels beginning with his second novel, My Gun is Quick. Today I take a look at his very first novel, I, the...
View ArticlePoem: “Becalmed” by Mark Hinton
Split Rock Lighthouse Here in the North Country, April snowstorm after snowstorm had us doubting whether spring would be coming this year after all. But predictions of 60- and 70-degree days have us...
View ArticleOf fog and blogs
(iPhone photo by m.a.h. hinton) As part of the process of revamping and rebranding MontanaWriter, I have been working back through three-plus years of posts… deciding what to keep and what to leave...
View ArticleOn tweeting and writing and the post-modern “bons mot”
Awhile back, after much initial resistance, I signed up for a Twitter account and began to tweet. (photo by m.a.h. hinton) I stop for a minute now and look at that sentence. For the thousandth time I...
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