Not unlike a lot of other writers, I have my doubts about myself--specifically, I sometimes wonder if I truly am meant to be one. But what does it mean to be a writer? At its ...
This week, I met with the AMAZING G.E. Gallas. We were discussing the final art on our children's book, Elias and the City of Cats, which we will be sending out to publishers in ...
Though I like to keep this blog strictly limited to the art of writing and my on-again, off-again relationship to the art, I do want to mention that this past Saturday, I produced a mock-commercial ...
This weekend, I submitted two project ideas to Disney's Living Worlds grant program, or is it a fellowship? What's the difference between a grant and a fellowship, anyway? Who knows. I digress. Whatever it is, it ...
Last week, I met with multi-talented G.E. Gallas, and she showed me some of the magic that will be my children's story: Elias & the City of Cats. Geri is an amazing visual artist and ...
Good week for projects. Not a great week for writing. But oh well, sometimes you are that squirrel hunting for nuts and sometimes, you hole yourself up and have to spend a little of that ...
I'm going to the Story World Conference in LA, my hometown. And I'm getting there by train. That's normal enough in most towns, but did I mention this is LA? This morning, I'm riding on a ...
Over a year ago, I set out to finish 52 stories in 52 weeks. The goal was to create a collection of micro fiction that I could use as a basis for a book and/or ...
It's been a long time coming. But finally, I got my social media butt together. I'm not sure I've organized myself as well as I could have. Do I really need one site for a ...
There's this place in the the Mission--a large store front that for a long time seemed vacan except that every once in a while, I would see these notes on the window. Who were they ...
