by Brian Volck | Mar 1, 2013 | Accountability
Consider this website an experiment. If it keeps me accountable to the work, it will have been successful. If it merely calls attention to me, it’s an exercise in vanity. It’s the work that counts. The work is writing. It’s bracing to tell people, “I’m a writer,” not...
by Brian Volck | Mar 1, 2013 | Publication
My wife, Jill, will tell you that I keep my successes to myself and downplay them when made public. It’s another vanity, a fantasy about being discovered without appearing to peddle my wares, a refusal to share the small victories of a life. It’s a habit I should...
