DM Kelly
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My horoscope tells me it is time for rest. My calendar, our customers and colleagues, exciting possibilities for collaboration, and the pollen exploding all around me tell me that rest is the last thing I want to do. My goal to sit down and write five mornings a week, uninterrupted, for the two hours before…
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When I was writing regularly — back in university, some in high school — I don’t remember who told me to wait until I’d finished my writing to add the title. How do you know what to call it until you’ve written it? I understand that concept and I follow it and embrace it, usually.…
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I’m reading a book right now by journalist and author Dan Charnas, who has taken the concept of Mise en Place from some of the world’s best chefs and kitchens, and applied it to other realms of work and life. When I was young, my parents always complained that I left a trail wherever I…
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As I was listening to Big Magic (Liz Gilbert) for the second or third time a week or so ago, lines just kept popping out at me. I have the physical copy of the book as well as the audiobook, and as I listen (usually while driving), I often have the book open generally to…
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Liz Gilbert came into my life like a mushroom. Actually, like mycelium. Lots of things come into my life that way. Maybe that’s the way life works for everyone, and if we aren’t paying attention, the mushroom fruits, drops its spores, and rots back away into the darkness. So very easy to miss. My BFF…
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This is a topic I was thinking about this morning. I have a couple of draft blog posts in the hopper I could have worked on. I’ve also got a couple of short stories, a screenplay, and at least one mushroom-growing manual in the works. And let’s not talk about the list of novels that…
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People ask me how I got into growing mushrooms. I’m not sure how anyone else gets into this, but for me, it was reluctantly, on the assurances of my dear partner. By the time he suggested we become full-time mushroom farmers, I had been through nearly 10 years of his promises fulfilled, in the realm…
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And everything is compost. A great man died this past year — his name was Dennis R. — and he was not famous. He was great to me because he was my father’s brilliant, wild-and-white-haired, squinty-eyed, no-bullshit Mad Scientist boss, with a crazy smile. A creative man who taught me the miracle of compost. Or,…
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Writing for myself can get pretty self-indulgent. I do it; I’ve always done it. But I think one of the problems with ONLY writing for oneself is that you never really get around to honing your craft. After all, what is the point of honing your writing? Isn’t it to better capture and communicate an…
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