One of the superpowers of independent bookstores is how curation can change a shopper’s discovery process of otherwise unnoticed books. Page Against the Machine in Long Beach is an example of such a store, with its focus on media related to activism and social/political movements. It then shouldn’t be a surprise that I came across…
Month: November 2022
A fresh start
I started this blog a little over a year ago to catalog the trials and tribulations of a writer’s life and the search for a writing process. All the foibles and mistakes made while stumbling around the idea of being a writer. But when it came to writing, the content took on a different tone,…
A void of one’s own: Twitter, #writingcommunity, and the future
A piece of advice floating around the writer community from established authors is to carve out a portion of the internet for yourself. I.e., a website or blog (yes, a blog is technically a website) somewhere you have complete control. Do this so in the very real and present future, if someone takes control, changes,…