seanessay.com Truth comes out when one is flowing, free falling, like doing the Morning Pages of Julia Cameron. Today’s free fall writing, mind you, is not planned or structured. How can it be, when I am speed-writing as I go along? Writing Prompt- the fool on the hill I used to sing “the fool on […]
Free Falling in First Person
seanessay.com Since free fall writing, by definition, is not edited, I don’t need to hold this “essay” back for my peers to edit. I can simply cut-and-paste yesterday’s Free Fall Friday. (10 a.m.-12 noon at the Alexandra Writers Centre, in person and another group online) Prompt- afraid One day, I realized I was afraid. I, […]
Little By Little Does the Trick
seanessay.com If I were raising children (or myself) then I would surely point out the insight gained if the child (or myself) stopped to think of the power of Little By Little. Years ago I was a young soldier. This was after eight tracks and before compact discs, a time when a popular pre “video […]
Recruit School is Really Scary
seanessay.com (under a thousand words) One of my college classmates sobbed during her brief time in a British police academy. She later wondered, as many civilians do: Why are recruit classes for police and the armed forces so hard? When civilians ask “What time did they make you get up in the morning?” or “How […]
From Parade Drill to Patrolling
seanessay.com (under 1,000 words) Sometimes I think about free citizens rushing into training for the war in Ukraine. I imagine older volunteers would guard prisoners and checkpoints. As for the younger guys, I guess their commanders could seize every spare moment to train them, beyond the indelible training of being in the “front lines.” Or, […]