"Journal 1993" is the ninth in a series of yearly journals by San Francisco author Joseph Sutton. It shows the ups and downs Sutton experienced as a dedicated but unpublished writer. It covers the relationship that he, a former college football player, had with his baseball-loving 12-year-old son. Also included are what he learned from his therapist—how to deal with a meddlesome mother-in-law and how his athletic ability saved him from being stifled as a young boy.

This book is an intriguing anthology of stories and chapters extracted from Joseph Sutton's three novels, three short story collections, a memoir and a baseball book. Put all these stories and chapters together and what you have, after fifty years of writing, is a mother lode of revelations, insights, wisdom and humor from the pen of Joseph Sutton. There are key excerpts from Sutton's three novels. MORNING PAGES: THE ALMOST TRUE STORY OF MY LIFE is about a writer finding a way to break out...

"Journal 2014: The Life of an Unknown Writer" is the 12th yearly journal written by San Francisco author Joseph Sutton. The main topics Sutton covered in 2014 were: Writing, Self-Publishing, the San Francisco Giants' World Series Run, the Beatles Sgt. Pepper Album, Exercise, Weight Loss/Gain, Climate Change, and much, much more.

This one-year journal from 1994 is the unfolding story of a 54-year old writer, walker, husband, father, former teacher, and ex-college football player. It's the story of a man who thinks, creates, dreams, doubts, regrets, and who writes honestly and fearlessly of his past and present life.

San Francisco author Joseph Sutton digs deep into his soul as to why so many Americans refused to believe that Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump in the 2020 election. It's just one of many subjects Sutton deals with in this yearly journal of his. Other subjects include Covid-19, vaccinations, his three favorite Bay Area sports teams, his life as a writer, being 80 years old, and climate change.

Journal 2024: Donald Trump and My Upcoming Heart Surgery is the 21st yearly journal published by San Francisco author Joseph Sutton. Among the subjects Sutton covers in this 9,000-word journal are Trump, Biden, sports, racism, family, exercise, writing, his past, his regrets, and climate change.

Journal 1990, like all of San Francisco writer Joseph Sutton's yearly journals, is not only a short history of one year in his life and the country's life, but it also reads like fiction in the sense of "What's going to happen next?" A major portion of Journal 1990 deals with Little League baseball. What's going to happen with Sutton's relationship with his 9-year-old son as he plays Little League baseball for the first time? How will Sutton's team fare in his first attempt at coaching? Th...

"These are the times that try men's souls," wrote Thomas Paine in 1776. Yes, these Trump Times are trying a lot of men and women's souls. Being a writer, I can no longer be silent, for as professional football player Michael Bennett has said, "There's a point where silence is becoming dishonest." The three essays in this book show why Donald Trump is a menace to America's ideals.

Write Now! is a BIG/little book about writing, writer's block, rejection, publishing, and selling his book. It is also the story of the making of a writer.

"Morning Pages" is about a writer, Ben Halaby, suffering from writer's block. He accidentaly stumbles across "The Artist's Way," a book about creativity by Julia Cameron. Cameron's basic principle for breaking out of a block is to write three-pages-nonstop-first-thing-in-the-morning-for-84-days. Halaby heeds Cameron's advice, and what we see, as the words come gushing out of his pen and soul, is not only the creative process in action, but we see a man turning into his old storytelling sel...

A powerful book about writing and the writing process, this book will motivate both beginning and professional writers to sit down and write as swiftly as they can to generate ideas or to break out of a writer's block. Writing will become a joyful act instead of a chore. All aspects of writing are covered, from setting deadlines, overcoming rejection, revising, getting feedback, persevering against all odds, contending with interruptions, and much, much more.

"Journal 2015: History of One Man" is a history of one year in San Francisco writer Joseph Sutton's life. Religion, Sports, the Universe, the Environment, Philosophy, American History, Politics, Self-Publishing—all these topics and more are included in Sutton's one-year journal.