Unfortunately, we do not live in a world in which all of us can focus on the intoxication of the day, the day spent in creative tasks. We have to negotiate the practical. We must, most of us on a varying scale of wealth and living expenses, pay the rent.Continue Reading
Something that has always dumbfounded me is the lack of time we are led to believe unavailable to us. It’s like everything is instant,and instantly we have less time that ever. There are the 24 hour conveniences, the 24 delivery and the world of instant data at our fingertips 24Continue Reading
I would define Higher Laws as something that can never be written down, reread by others in authority or teachers. Higher Laws cannot be spread over the whole populace as an unifying theory. Your Higher Laws and mine can never be the same. Like me, you must obey the lawsContinue Reading
The sun came through that famous brown cloud one bright November morning. Lit like it was, complete with the soundtrack of suburban commuters in individual cars, the wash of the morning was at once peaceful and depressing. The dirt worn asphalt seemed like it was a century old, and neglectedContinue Reading
The Hook: Late one night, Sophie Duggard, gets shot going into an all night convenience store. During the several weeks of convalescence to follow the incident, Sophie becomes first increasingly alienated and then scattered as she starts to put things into perspective. She challenges her thoughts on love, drug useContinue Reading
This 2018 season of National Novel Writing Month, or nanowrimo, was very different from the last four creative challenges, at least for me. The biggest difference, I suppose is that I worked very quickly on the last few challenges. November 2017’s The Second Door took 13 days. April 2018’s AdmiralContinue Reading
NaNoWriMo When it came to the writing of my November novel, Lovejoy, I did not make one single plan. I did not even think about it until the writing began. I had a character. I had one scene in mind, and that was it. I had one character from anotherContinue Reading
https://nanowrimo.org November has come and gone. Of course I participated in the National Novel Writing Month, or nanowrimo again this year. In fact since I participated in November of 2017, I have participated in several creative challenges including Camp NaNoWriMo in both April and July and then the SoFoBoMo inContinue Reading
When I think of the golden time for me as a writer, I think of only one time. I know, when I think about things, there are so many good times, there are so many highlights. But there is one time in particular that really rings true. This time rings trueContinue Reading
So, there I was. I was determined to take my revenge out on two things, my liver and the whole town of Portland, Oregon. I had been struggling. I had been struggling and someone broke into my car and stole my notebook. How could they? I drank and I drankContinue Reading