In my collection of notebooks and scrap paper, lies my collection of rejection notes dating back to my earliest days in the business. There is a good reason that I keep these and you should too. Rejection letters and notes do not always serve as a thumbs-down on your work. When it does, it should […]
Reading is a refresher to writing. Reading is learning structure and style. In a sense, reading can feel like a relaxing kind of work. Of the many books I have read over the last few years, most have been autobiographies about musicians whose artistic output I have enjoyed immensely. In most of these kinds of […]
Reviewing just a fraction of the content pool, existing on paper in my home office, 4:30 a.m. on a Monday morning. Last night while trying to rest, I started to leaf through a small notebook full of work. Some of these pages contain a single word, while others like the ones you can see openly, […]
I’m a music person for life. Metal has and always will be my main passion of music. Bass, my instrument and voice, because my singing voice is just workable. Most of the nights that I would sit up writing in the many notebooks I owned, there was always music in the background. Because I was […]
The business of writing is in a constant cycle of evolution. With the digital age still strong and growing stronger, many writers are able to put themselves out there more easily. Some have argued that anyone with a computer can now call themselves a writer and blogger. It’s just not […]
Stop. Right now. No more planning anything physically strenuous on this Labour Day Monday. Sure I suppose if you want to exercise that is all fine and good. Strongly encourage that if it helps clear your head, as it does mine. Refresh. Recharge. Relax. Refocus. Perhaps I should be listening to my own advice […]
Time has a way of making the acceptance of “Reality” much easier. During one of the last conversations I had with my late Grandmother, she asked me a loaded question with an easy answer. “Are you abandoning your faith?” To which I promptly responded; “My faith has abandoned me.” My Grandmother was a […]
The last few weeks have been a whirlwind. A kind of torrential rainfall where you don’t even feel a thing on your face. I’ve been numb at times to the obvious pain I have felt. There have been some hard lessons learned. Some bright lights have turned on where a few others burned out. My […]
Sometimes I read lots before going on an unknowingly self-imposed hiatus. Sure I still continue to read blog posts and social media updates but I am referring specifically to reading, then not reading, then reading again, books. Because I want to read so many different books now I have come to have many on the […]
When you see the title, do mirrors come to mind? Or are you thinking I am about to go on a long tirade about the year 2012 and review all the news stories. If you have read some of my previous posts you will note that I simply do not elect to read the news […]
Dann Alexander 