One Place, One Practice

Simplifying doesn’t always mean doing less.

Sometimes it means doing fewer things more honestly.

Over the past year, I noticed that my writing was spread across multiple sites and categories — even though the underlying work was the same: paying attention, questioning inherited scripts, and living without rushing toward conclusions.

I’ve moved my ongoing writing to a single home: The Pencil-Driven Life on Substack.

This wasn’t a strategic decision.
It was a simplifying one.

Instead of separating writing into “belief,” “purpose,” or “craft,” I’m now writing from the same place each time — the ordinary moment in front of me.

If this work has resonated with you here, you’re warmly invited to follow along there.

👉 https://thepencildrivenlife.substack.com/

No funnels.
No urgency.
Just a quieter place to keep noticing.


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Author: Richard L. Fricks

Richard L. Fricks is a novelist, former attorney and CPA, Fictionary Certified StoryCoach Editor, and creator of The Pencil-Driven Life. He lives in rural North Alabama near Boaz, where much of his fiction and reflection remain rooted. His work explores story, inherited purpose, faith and doubt, family pressure, moral contradiction, consciousness, ordinary life, and the practice of beginning again with a pencil.

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