by Bill McCurry | Dec 30, 2013 | Creativity, Humor, Writing
Guilt is for children with sticky fingers and mysterious stains. I declare this to be true in defiance of all religious and sociological thought, because I don’t want to mess with guilt today. I haven’t posted for a month, and I don’t even need a reason, never mind a...
by Bill McCurry | Apr 29, 2013 | Confidence, Creativity, Depression, Humor, Marriage, Relationships, Writing
Writing brings out the mental illness in me. My wife can testify to this. I’m in control of my behavior almost all the time. As Mark Twain said, “For business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.” If I wake up to find my brain mired like a mammoth in...
by Bill McCurry | Oct 26, 2012 | Confidence, Creativity, Humor, Writing
I gouged out part of my soul and hurled it into a wood chipper the other day. It was no fun, although I did get to eat pie while I did it. It happened because I’m trying to write something longer than the instructions for assembling an armoire made in Korea, and...
by Bill McCurry | Apr 27, 2012 | Creativity, Humor, Writing
I cannot testify that writing a book is like giving birth. I’m a guy, and I’d sound pretty dumb saying something like that. I will say that it’s like pushing a living thing out of you, despite the fact that you don’t have any exits that a logical person would think...
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