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

Richard L. Fricks is a novelist and Fictionary Certified StoryCoach Editor living near Boaz, Alabama. His fiction explores ordinary people caught in difficult human questions, and he works with a small number of beginning novelists through a year-long, in-person writing program.

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