Here we have a carefully curated selection of pieces written by the Wistful Writer, presented in no particular order. They have been heralded by some readers as touching, stunning, beautiful, smart, insightful, and honest, amongst many other very flattering adjectives. If you have any favorites, please do let us know. Please take caution, some of his pieces have been known to make people cry.
Articles
- On Some Fallacies of Some Amateur Fiction
- The Spirituality of Fireworks: On Adulthood and Creature-Feeling
- On the Modern Affairs of a Writer
- The Flaw of A Writer’s Heavy-handed Rhetoric
- On Good Fiction (and learning from other first-timers)
- The First or the Third: My Struggle With My Novel’s Narrative
- The Genealogy of a Novel: A Ten Year Retrospective
- The journey to find my bespoke suit – Five-part Series
- Why Online Dating is Broken: And How We Can Fix It
- My Never Ending Love-Hate Relationship With Online Dating
- The Dying American Marriage: A Short Discourse On Dissenting Opinions On Monogamy
- On Monogamy and Marriage
- On ‘Sex at Dawn’ (or Why casual sex doesn’t work)
- On Casual Sex: The
Difficulties of Promiscuity - Infidelity and the Morality of Children
- On The Mixing of Mainstream Science and Private Lives
- On Coffee, Connoisseurship, and Hipster Elitism
- On the Art and Science of Psychology
- The sacrilege of my sweet sweet Moleskine
- Fiction as Reality in Frank O’ Hara
Creativity And Writing
- Mr. Bickle, Meet Mr. Shiftlet: Disillusionment and Displacement in Flannery O’ Connor
- Mister Marky and The Turtle
- City Folk
- One Paid Hour
- The Pizzeria
- Open door
- Hollow Hopes
- An empty stage
- Reflections on a hot day
- Folks, marry young
- Oh no, the rain.
- Raspberry Intrigue
- The Purity of Love
- The Hobbyist (short machinima film)
- Once Upon a Time in Bohan (short machinima film)
- Thoughts on a so-called education in the English subject
- On The Film Inception: And The Merits of Art
Obtuse Observations
- On The Truest Measure of Acceptance: Racial Boundaries
- May we always remember those whom we have lost, even if we have not lost them yet
- Loneliness (Part something of many)
- The long process of embitterment
- Walk a mile in these downtrodden shoes
- On Smooching
- 5 reasons why women have it easier than they think
- Falling in love with damaged women
- Would you date yourself?
- Communicating with the shy guy you like
- The problem with dating
- Oh, he’s not my type…
- Speed dating is destructive
- Online dating is a real sham
- My red sweater
Exposition
- Bittersweet: A Love Story – Part One
- A Broken Record
- Self-inflicted Conundrum
- That Special Lady
- The Lonely Hearted
- The truth behind my loneliness
- Upholding Old School Standards of Manliness
- Strong values, weak wills
- Phone shy, and a good reason for it
- College Diplomas: A License to Talk Out of Your Ass
- Facebook Movie Shows Just How Out Of Hand Facebook Has Gotten
- Simplicity
