I believe that there are certain phases we all go through in the writing life. We all start by imitating the things we love – the books, the movies, whatever – and that goes on for a long, long time, until we get impatient with ourselves and decide that we need to start learning this…
Category: Craft
And It’s Wrong.
We live in a broken world. We always have. There has never been a time in human history when things just fell seamlessly into place, when everybody got along, when things were as they appeared. The victories have always been partial, the glories always dependent on where you were standing at the time. Life is…
Word Count, My Tyrant
In this age of Bluetooth, I no longer get odd glances when I talk to myself in the car. I get contemptuous glares, as my traffic distractions are clearly going to kill us all. If people knew my secret shame, however, the chain-the-madman panic stares would never end.