Tag: creativity
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Another Day Stuck in Bullshit City: Writing a Memoir With My Younger Selves, Therapy School, and a Few Robots
If you’re new here, a quick introduction probably helps. I’m Francis Anderson. I’m a writer, a father, a lifelong Greenville, South Carolina native, and, at forty-seven, a graduate student studying marriage and family therapy. That last part has done something unexpected to my writing. I went back to school because I want to become a…
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Walking Through The Creeping Darkness.
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about spirals. Not the optimistic kind that climbs upward, but the kind that feels like it descends forever. Finishing The Recursive Man has been stranger than I expected. For years, my life had a destination. There was always another chapter to revise, another scene to rethink, another sentence to…
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The Triptych- How Forrest Gump, The Dark Half, and The Gunslinger Helped Me Find Myself
People often ask writers what their favorite books are. That’s actually a difficult question for me because my favorite books change depending on the day, my mood, and where I am in life. There are hundreds of books I have loved over the years, from children’s books to literary fiction, fantasy, horror, history, and memoir.…
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On Working LESS With AI and Why That Was Always The Plan.
Recently, I outlined more than 80 potential articles and story ideas for the Seen / Unseen Greenville project I’ve been working on. You may have noticed that I haven’t posted much over the last few weeks. You may not have noticed at all. Either way, it’s been intentional. Part of it is that I needed…
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The Fulcrum and Axis: The Seen and Unseen- A Diatribe on Trying to Figure Out Life, the Universe, and Everything
Today we are going way up our own butts. I just want to establish that immediately so nobody thinks this is about to become a grounded and practical discussion about taxes or lawn care or whatever emotionally healthy people spend their Sundays doing. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about threshold moments in stories. Those…