David Murray edits the magazine Vital Speeches of the Day and runs the Professional Speechwriters Association. On June 18, 2026 he published his 4,493th post in the Writing Boots blog he had started back in 2008. It is titled Writing Boots: I Can’t Live With It, and I Can’t Live Without It. (I only have 3157 posts or ~70% of his total). I enjoy reading his blog, which he posts at almost every weekday (although Fridays usually are just a linked video).
He says he has used this blog:
"as a chance to sharpen my knives.
to remind myself, on muggy gray Tuesdays between magazine articles and books and other public stunts, that I exist.
to draw crowds by starting fights.
to be a self-righteous prick.
to write gentle poems that you wouldn’t read otherwise.
to make reading my thoughts, your habit.
to get things off by chest.
to settle scores.
to preen.
to figure out what I think.
to force myself to say something, every day.
to make saying something every day easy and natural. (It’s easier to write every day than once a week, a daily columnist and I agree).
To say whatever the fuck I want.
To keep from complaining that I’m not allowed to say whatever the fuck I want."
The writer image was cropped from Wikimedia Commons.
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