A Change in Where I’m Writing

For a long time, my writing has lived in several places.

Some of it was about belief.
Some of it about purpose.
Some of it about craft, or questioning, or simply noticing what it feels like to be alive in an ordinary day.

Over time, I began to see that what mattered wasn’t the category — it was the practice underneath it.

I’ve moved my primary writing home to a new place called The Pencil-Driven Life on Substack.

It’s not a rebrand.
It’s a narrowing.

The Pencil-Driven Life is where I’m now writing about attention, work, and ordinary moments — noticed as they happen. Sometimes through story. Sometimes through reflection. Sometimes through questions that don’t ask to be resolved.

If you’ve been following my work here, nothing essential is being left behind.
It’s simply being gathered into one place.

You can find it here:
👉 https://thepencildrivenlife.substack.com/

I’ll continue to let the pencil move.

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Author: Richard L. Fricks

Writer. Observer. Builder. I write from a life shaped by attention, simplicity, and living without a script—through reflective essays, long-form inquiry, and fiction rooted in ordinary lives. I live in rural Alabama, where writing, walking, and building small, intentional spaces are part of the same practice.

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