Back to RUFUS
Well, for any of you following along, you’ll know that I’m about 20,000 words into the new novel, RUFUS [that's a working title, obviously, but I suspect it'll also be the final title] I put the book...
View ArticleQuote: Our Deepest Fear – Marianne Williamson
I thought I’d posted this here a long time ago, but a search let me know I hadn’t! Marianne Williamson‘s quote [from her book A Return to Love] was powerful reinforcement to me as I made my transition...
View ArticleVideo: Be Still
Be Still – from Sparse, available online at http://vincenttuckwood.bandcamp.com. BE STILL – VINCENT TUCKWOOD If you would stop talking You might hear one hand clapping As a tree falls a lonely fall...
View ArticleMonkey68: Playing as a band again – we’re back!
For those who have been following along at home, you’ll know that I’ve been out and doing solo shows for the past 15 months – it’s been fun stripping my songs back, getting to know my voice and guitar...
View ArticleThursday Insight: Family Rules – Getting to know Kenny
I wrote Family Rules as something of a meditation on becoming a father, and also in reflection of our time living in New York City [which, while backdrop to the story, is almost a character as well]...
View ArticleThursday Insight: When the pauses come…
Work on the new novel – RUFUS – has been on hold for [what is beginning to feel like much more than] a little while. There are reasons, of course: work to be done to bring in money so that I may...
View ArticleRUFUS – a snapshot
He floats on the music, his voice disembodied. Up and above the stage, into the lights, their inferno cores, and through into the very ink itself. He is red, purple, blue, yellow, green; pulsating in...
View ArticleThursday Insight: Delayed
Yes, I admit it, I’m writing and posting this on a Saturday. I’m two days late [for a deadline of my own creation] so in the spirit of writing from wherever you are, I thought I’d share my own...
View ArticleToday, an old song lyric feels appropriate
Big day for equality in the US today, with the Supreme Court ruling the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional. [For those following along at home outside of the US, for the past 30 years or so,...
View ArticleImproving my running form
I’ve been an on-and-off runner for a while – the longest race I ever competed in was 6K, way back in the late 90′s. Every so often, I’ve tried dipping back in, but soon became tired of the jarring...
View ArticleThursday Insights – On the yearning…
I took a week off from Thursday Insights last week – I’d like to tell you it was planned, that I was managing mood, space and time, and enabling myself to reach a higher plateau of consciousness… But...
View ArticleWrite fast, write clean… just right, just write
A quick scan of recent posts will let you know that I’ve been facing some delays and distractions from writing recently. Some of it block-induced, some due to a dip in self-confidence, some due to the...
View ArticleAnd so the pendulum swings
Time just keeps marching on, doesn’t it? Wheels keep turning. And that pendulum swings… I’ve spent most of my life [since my early teens at least] in slow oscillation between the twin poles of music...
View ArticleThursday Insight – Wait, what country am I writing from?
A day late today – yesterday was the 4th, so I was helping friends celebrate the birth of their country. There were a few of us Brits there, so not too many jibes about the revolutionary war [they soon...
View ArticleWhen the stories come…
It’s been a couple of weeks since I last dropped in here at VinceT.net. Even today, I’m only dropping by for a brief moment – then I have to be back to the page. A story came calling, you see – much as...
View ArticleThursday Insight – Video killed the radio star
Well, here I am again, getting into process yet observing the process at the same time. As ever, people fascinate me. For those following along at home, I’ve just begun the march to produce and direct...
View ArticleThursday Insight – One way reciprocity
Ugh. Ugly feeling this morning. I’m tired. Physically, emotionally and, especially, spiritually. Last night was open mic in New London and, for a change, I was running sound – through my own gear. From...
View ArticleExtract from RUFUS
“Penny for ‘em,” Danni smiled. Rufus went on the offensive. “I have to stay focused, on myself, on my music,” he said, “it’s the only way I’ll live up to my potential.” “Potential?” Danni asked,...
View ArticleCall It Stormy Monday
Feel free to play this in the background as you read this post: Because, while it may have nothing to do with what I’m about to write [except for its title, of course] it is a really nice take on the...
View ArticleThursday Insight – Don’t mind me…
… I’m just having a self-indulgent moment. I’ve been thinking about self-indulgence a lot recently. No, wait. I’ve been thinking about self-indulgence a LOT recently. [see what I did there?] Now that...
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