Category: life story

When the Ghosts of the Past Come Knocking

Post author By oldguywritesbooks
Post date April 22, 2025
Categories In learning how to write, life story, write books, your story
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pexels-suzyhazelwood-6785319 “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” — William Faulkner Faulkner wasn’t wrong. The past doesn’t ask permission. It just shows up, usually when we’re least prepared for it. Ever notice how memories have impeccable timing? You’re pouring coffee, folding laundry, or staring at a blinking cursor, and bam. A name. A […]

I will fear no more

Post author By oldguywritesbooks
Post date July 1, 2024
Categories In life story, write a book, write books
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Musings from #oldguywritesbooks (a series) If you continue to doubt that you can author that book burning within you, you might start to consider that the noise in your mind is just two opposing voices clamoring for your attention. As you have seen from some of the previous posts in this series, one voice is […]

Stumbling Block

Post author By oldguywritesbooks
Post date June 30, 2024
Categories In life story, write a book, write books
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Musings from #oldguywritesbooks (a series) The orange cube in the picture is a stumbling block. Because it is cube-shaped, it has six sides. Imagine that each side has a different word or phrase imprinted on it. Most are predicated on something I wrote about previously, fear. Here are some of the phrases that were on […]

The Ocean is Calling, Must Go

Post author By oldguywritesbooks
Post date June 29, 2024
Categories In life story, write books
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A piece beautifully written and shared by a dear friend. Used with permission. My beautiful wife Lin and I love taking vacations forty miles north of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, in an area called Cherry Grove, just south of the North Carolina border. Along the peaceful, picturesque, white sandy beaches of a place we call […]

Risky Business

Post author By oldguywritesbooks
Post date June 27, 2024
Categories In life story, write a book, write books, your story
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Musings from #oldguywritesbooks (a series) Most people consider writing or contemplating their first book a huge risk. As I wrote my first one, A Better Man, Husband, Father, I inwardly felt like I was jumping off the cliff of sanity into the pit of gloom. The fear that I held when I first thought about […]

Fear

Post author By oldguywritesbooks
Post date June 25, 2024
Categories In life story, write a book, write books
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Musings from #oldguywritesbooks (a series) Among others, there is an acronym for fear that resonates with me particularly well. It is “False Evidence Appearing Real.” Over the years, I have felt fear about several things, people, and circumstances, only to realize later that I was wrong to feel that way. FDR’s old saying, “We have […]

1, One, Uno

Post author By oldguywritesbooks
Post date June 23, 2024
Categories In life story, write a book, write books, your story
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Musings from #oldguywritesbooks (a series) There’s an old saying, “Everyone has a book in them.” Do you think that’s true? Or do you say “yes, but”? The reality is, and no offense is meant, that everyone has a book in them unless they are brain dead. That’s because every single person has a life story–everybody. […]