Beyond the Rhetoric

“Not that everything you do will end up a masterpiece. But you should paint it like it could be.” For most of these Sunday Snippet entries that I post on Beyond the Rhetoric, I turn to relatively prominent figures like Albert Einstein. Some may be more obscure than others, but they are usually deemed to [...]

“Something I do in the studio is revisit a tune that’s been recorded and just jam along with my guitar to see what I can come up with. If I find something that makes me go, “Whoa, I really like that,” I’ll go in and alter the song to include that new layer. I find [...]

“Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time…The wait is simply too long.” If you are writing largely for pleasure and personal expression, that’s one thing. If you are relying on your professional writing skills to provide a stable income, that’s another thing altogether. [...]