writing challenges – michael jarmer

We Interrupt Our Regularly Scheduled Program to Talk About New Music (A-M), Turntables, and Writing as an Avoidance Strategy Against Writing

I started the listening challenge of moving my way through every record in the collection by artist from A-Z, in large part, because I felt that I was neglecting older records always in favor of new acquisitions. Now, nine months and 13 letters into the project, I’m discovering that I am neglecting my new recordsContinue reading “We Interrupt Our Regularly Scheduled Program to Talk About New Music (A-M), Turntables, and Writing as an Avoidance Strategy Against Writing”

NaNoWriMo 2024: Adjusting My Expectations

The point of any kind of forced creativity experience or challenge is to simply do the creative thing you want to be doing but perhaps wouldn’t be doing otherwise. I am all for it. I’ve done more than a decade worth of a poem every day in April, I’ve participated in songwriting challenges that resultedContinue reading “NaNoWriMo 2024: Adjusting My Expectations”