Writing
Getting rekindled, and no, not in the e-book way
Feeling a little stuck lately with the writing. There, I said it. Also: Not feeling it at all with the writing. Which, I'm sure most people would say is a signal to take a breather. Thing is, I've been breathing a while. The fiction just isn't coming as easily these days, which makes me extremely…
Read MoreReading all the words
I'm juggling a lot at the moment, but two of the things I'm juggling at least give me a significant amount of pleasure: I'm in the middle of two books at once. "Earth Abides" by George Stewart is possibly one of the first of the modern postapocalyptic novels; it came out in 1949 and is…
Read MoreGotta get up, gotta go to work …
They say writing first thing in the morning is a good habit to learn to get into. Get up earlier, sit down at the keyboard, and just start writing. That's kind of what I'm doing at this point. But even I can see there are problems with that notion: 1. If you already get up…
Read MoreAnd now for something completely different in 2013
It's a new year. It's time for new resolutions. Things you plan to do but which fall by the wayside in the light of life and other shiny objects. Like many, I'm going to undertake to create a few new neural pathways, which can become routines, which can become habits, which can become ruts. But…
Read MoreBehind the mask
At the risk of making life sound far more exciting than it has been lately (helping my man recover from pneumonia involved a lot of letting him sleep while I tiptoed around the apartment), I went off to another screening last night. This one for "Mildred Pierce," which has been remade into a 5-part miniseries…
Read MoreEarly morning inspiration
They say write what you know. At 2:30 this morning I woke up and struggled to get back to sleep for about an hour — because my brain was turned on. In that hour I came up with an idea for a sitcom that just … could … fly. That said, I've never written a…
Read MoreAn interview with Dave Eggers – The Harvard Advocate (2000)
This is an interview from 2000 that was originally printed in The Harvard Advocate. I did not conduct the interview; I’m just presenting it here in whole so there is an internet presence for what is an amazing piece of writing that thoroughly inspired me. It is all worth reading but gets more salient about…
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