I am typing this one-handed at 9:01 p.m. on this thunderstormy Thursday. I’m using the other hand to shove a peanut butter & jelly sandwich into my gaping maw. It is the first of a…
Browsing Category Writing
Things I Believe I Deserve a Major Award For
The awkward construction of that headline. Writing fiction two days in a row like some kind of fiction writer. Today I crested 21,000 words on The Beast v2. Emptying the dishwasher when the only dirty…
Writing Process Blog Tour: Some Word Barf About Word Barf
Last week, my friend Donna Trump, a lovely and talented writer I met in on of Vodo’s writing classes at The Loft a bajillion years ago asked me to take part in the Writing Process…
Top 25 Most Listened to Songs of 2013 or Music for writing a book to
For the first time in the nine-year history of the Top 25 I had to turn to the Last.fm charts, rather than rely on my ol’ iTunes play counts (which I reset every year around…
Doubling Down
I’m not entirely sure what it means to double down. It has something to do with black jack, right? I’m not much of a gambler. When I worked at The Nerdery, my friend Malmsy and…