Sitemap

Member-only story

Kendrick’s Korner, Vol. 2

A Newsletter for jbkendrick subscribers on Medium.com

7 min readOct 19, 2026

--

Press enter or click to view image in full size
Photo by Markus Winkler on Unsplash

Hello Readers,

I spent most of my available time this week working on a new story on Wispr Flow. If you haven’t read it, you can check it out here. This story was a challenge. The application was new to me, so I spent a lot of time learning and testing its features before I could even begin writing.

Folks often ask where I come up with the ideas for my stories, and I don’t really have a good answer for them. I don’t go to my computer and start brainstorming first thing every morning. In fact, though I get up early and am retired, my morning routine is pretty full.

It starts with feeding our many animals, getting my breakfast, and catching up on Medium responses from overnight as many of my followers are from other parts of the world. I listen to a few Medium stories from those I follow, and after that, I hit the gym for a couple of hours and arrive back home just before noon.

I don’t really know what writer’s block is; I think it’s because there is no one holding a hammer over my head to produce, though I do think about my readers when it’s been a week since the last story. I try to be patient and wait for something to hit me, and it always does, usually in the morning while doing other things.

--

--

Retired Tech Professional, teaching, writing and supporting compute technologies in the government, university and private sectors since the mid 80's.