Voyager*
One of the strange things about writing fiction is, you can accomplish a lot without actually writing anything. In my “spare time,” I wrote 3000 words this week, without ever o
Come Talk To Me
Two quick things this February morning: — First, Wampus just published a nice Q&A with yours truly, exploring some of the ins, outs, and miscellaneous travails of the wor
Born to Run?
So, the other day when I sat down to write a blog post, all that came out was a rant about the SOPA debate*. That’s really not what this forum is for, so—let’s try again, sha
Down by the Schoolyard
So, spending half an hour the other day wallowing in the latest Interweb meme—Tuesday’s catastrophic PR meltdown by a one-man firm called Ocean Marketing, begun on Penny Arcade
More Than Simple Cash Can Buy
Pete Frame got me thinking last week. Not that I would expect everyone to find inspiration in the work of a guy who charts out impossibly complex and detailed family trees of rock
Drive
Where do stories come from? That, it seems to me, is the question behind the oldest question in the history of fiction: where do you get your ideas? The emphatic eye-roll the latte
Don’t Give Up
I wrote my first real story when I was 16. After seven months of junior-year high school literature study, the assignment from my English teacher – Mark James, a wise-cracking En
With a Little Help from My Friends
As we gear up for launch day tomorrow, our friends at Riff Raf are lending a hand. Fellow musicologist and Riff Raf chief Richard Fulco recently invited me over to talk about the m
Thank You*
Believe in Me (Wampus Multimedia, Nov. 29) begins one sunny July morning and ends during the first week of that same November. Which means Thanksgiving does not happen in the book.
Faith
When I started writing the story that became Believe in Me (Wampus Multimedia, Nov. 29), it never occurred to me that faith would play a role in the narrative. When I started writi