Will Wright: Award-Winning Indie Journalism, Writing, incl SpeechWriting

  • Early July Allows Us to Reacquaint Ourselves with New Year Goals.

    July marks the beginning of the second half of the year. It allows us moments to reacquaint ourselves with the aspirations from new year’s. Most people abandon their new year’s goals by early or mid-February. When you abandon them all of the ambitious, go-get-‘em self-talk is wasted. That’s a shame. Daily life and obligations make…

  • A Former LA Inmate, a Devout Rastafarian, Earns SCOTUS Hearing about Dreadlocks

    According to CNN, “the Supreme Court agreed Monday to take up the case of a Rastafarian man seeking to sue prison officials in Louisiana who cut off his dreadlocks while he was incarcerated.” While an inmate, Damon Landor, a devout Rastafarian, pleaded to prison guards not to cut his hair. They sheared his dreadlocks. In…

  • Back to the mid-20th-Century with National Typewriter Day on June 23?

    Back to the mid-20th-Century with National Typewriter Day on June 23?

    There are benefits to using manual typewriters, which we, in 2025, have lost touch with. National Typewriter Day is on June 23. Some writers or planners prefer the simplicity of working with fewer distractions and more task focus. Going back to a mid-20th-Century writing tool by using manual typewriters can excite these who yearn for…

  • To Seek Morsels of Comfort Amid Adult Anxiety and Stress

    To Seek Morsels of Comfort Amid Adult Anxiety and Stress

    I’m educated, highly intelligent, oft-well-motivated and talented, but underemployed in a dead-end job. I seek and my steady work history evinces that I deserve a better job. In what business headlines call a frozen market, job networking isn’t helping my search for a better job. Amid anxiety, it’s vital to find and note some lightness…

  • A One-Time Runner Takes a Pass on Global Running Day

    A One-Time Runner Takes a Pass on Global Running Day

    I won’t celebrate Global Running Day on June 4th. Around April of 2022 I decided that I needed to stop running for my knee’s sake. After a fast four-mile run my right knee took too long to recover. I’d need that joint for the foreseeable future. In the early 2020s, running was a pillar of…

  • Improv Experiences Can Help Adults to Expand their Comfort Zones, Increase Joy

    Improv Experiences Can Help Adults to Expand their Comfort Zones, Increase Joy

    “Whose Line Is It Anyway” is a hoot to watch! It’s fun. And wits are working for comedy. How long can you watch and be enthrall with “Whose Line” before you want to do it yourself? A lot of it is highly intelligent, fun, sometimes edgy and fast-paced. It’s hard be get bored. I want…

  • How Do You Hang that “Shingle” of Independent Speechwriter?

    How Do You Hang that “Shingle” of Independent Speechwriter?

    In mid-May, a Georgia-based independent speechwriter, Henrietta Williams, offered a webinar about working in the “lucrative” realm of speechwriting work. Learning of this via the Professional Speechwriters Association (PSA) and persistently curious and ambitious about using my writing talents, I registered for this webinar about the lucrative world of independent speechwriting. Since I learned about…

  • Great Essay-Writing Fodder Eludes me!

    I want to write 500-word essays each week – But this is difficult. I look at Npr.org CNN.com and other news sources, and sources for cultural observances like the Black History Calendar at BlackMarket.com. My life is too homebody and introverted to provide me with fodder for great cogent weekly essays. So I often rely…

  • Beholdened to neither Church nor Pope, We Note Francis, Nonetheless

    Beholdened to neither Church nor Pope, We Note Francis, Nonetheless

    Pope Francis’ death surprised most of the world. It happened overnight into Monday. On Sunday we had just seen Pope Francis in a wheelchair. He was ill, but looked all right. He looked like he was healing; this, especially after double pneumonia. Between Easter Sunday and Monday morning something happened. Waking on Monday morning and…

  • Let’s Stop Taking Librarians For-Granted

    Librarians are guides to knowledge and the ways to exploit materials. According to a http://www.Today.com calendar of national observances, April 16th marked National Librarian Day. According to InfoDocket.com, 1.32 billion people used their public libraries, and 55% of Americans are registered users. So, with the U.S. population of 330 million, more than 165 million people…

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