Jesse Koepke

2/01/09             “ ‘Good night, my friends!’ said Galadriel… ‘Maybe the paths you each shall tread are already laid before your feet, though you do not see them yet.’ ” And that is a comforting thought, the idea that though decisions may be made, the path ahead of me is…

1/31/09             Well, I’m back. Ha. I like to start off the page with that, it seems. Look through my other notebooks; you’ll find it a lot.                         So. This morning I woke up and, after listening to Adventures in Odyssey, I read Fellowship of the Ring for a…

1/30/09             Well, I’m back for round 2. I’ve had a thought: it takes way less energy to consume than to create. I feel like I have the option of watching a movie (consuming) or writing a movie (creating), and consuming entertainment is soooooo much easier. All I have to…

(This is the first entry in my writing journal.)   1/29/09             In an attempt to get more into the groove and flow of writing, I think I’m going to do writing exercises before I write. Maybe just ten minutes of free writing or something like…

Recently I sat down to begin writing a story that had been brewing in my mind for a while. But as I picked up pen and paper, I found myself floundering in terrible sentences, dry action, and the worst writing I had done in years. I hadn’t written prose for…