Jeremiah Tolbert

Writer | Photographer | Web Designer

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A Call for First Readers

I’m look­ing for 3–4 indi­vid­u­als who would be will­ing to review the new Roundbottom posts before I make them live on the site.  I need fresh eyes that can catch bad sen­tences, stu­pid gram­mar, stu­pid any­thing really.  Without an edi­tor in the process, I worry about pub­lish­ing some really sub­par.  I’m less con­cerned with storytelling […]

The Addictive Properties of Creative Work

As I enter a phase of high pro­duc­tiv­ity, I am reminded of the par­al­lels I detect between the way I inter­act with my cre­ativ­ity and the effect of addic­tive drugs (as I have read, any­way. I’ve never taken any, unless you count xanax.) Acts of cre­ativ­ity bring on an emo­tional and energy high while I am […]

Postmortem:“Babe, I Am Going to Leave You”

Yesterday, I released my intensely per­sonal story of death, Led Zeppelin, and how fam­i­lies cope with death, “Babe, I am Going to Leave You” as a CC-licensed story. A friend asked what my think­ing was behind doing this, so I thought I’d break it down in a blog post, in case any­one else was interested.I […]

The Role of Idea in my Fiction

Part of my mini­cri­sis last week about writ­ing and get­ting back to it was that I was hav­ing trou­ble gen­er­at­ing the ideas part of the equa­tion. This is almost always my start­ing point; a cool idea that I can at least delude myself is some­thing new that I haven’t seen done before. Or a twist […]