(Preamble to the Short Story Series) They come in all forms. They come in looking like something Hemingway could have written. They come in looking like something you wrote for your creative finger-painting project in Kindergarten. They come in complete. They come in as sovereign pieces. They come in withContinue Reading
I wish I could be the kind of writer who waits around for divine inspiration. I wish I could idly wait for my muse, or hell, any number of muses to waltz by and kiss me. I wish I could be the leisurely kind of writer. If that were theContinue Reading
I have never found anything worthwhile in a dream. I know it’s good to have them, and I’ve even heard that it is an important function of sleep. But when it comes right down to the act of writing, the idea of a dream is exactly what it is, aContinue Reading
Making connections as a writer will prove to be lucrative. Yes, there are all sorts of connections, those within a story or a conversation, and those which we must make with real life events and the fictional landing pad in our work. As elegantly as possible we can take aContinue Reading
The first time I drank gin I was in a whore house in Wells, Nevada. But the first time I was in a whore house in Wells, Nevada I drank white Russians. If you need the back story, the first time was during the great truck break down of 1999Continue Reading
I cannot quote the source, and I cannot even remember where I read it. It seems it was a news article I read on the internet about a year back. This time last year I worked part-time, and I do mean part-time, as an adjunct at Community College of Denver.Continue Reading
I’ve been thinking about books this fall. It’s 2010, and whether books still mean anything to rest of the world or not, they still mean something to me. Clearly. I mean without books, what do we really have? I suppose we still have the internet and the television and allContinue Reading
Some call it ritual. Some call it compulsion. I call it a schedule. I wake up. I pee. I start the coffee. Then I start writing. This happens everyday and in this exact way. I never stray. Both Janice and Mark have said, or rather, they have both predicted myContinue Reading
During this series of Life to Fiction we’ve discussed a few springboards: generations and geography. It seems only fitting that we should moved into the imagined. Daydreams. On those rare occasions when I’ve got the total free time, it is the absolute idle time I love to let my mindContinue Reading
Let’s ask this this question: what is geography? Well, I would think we all know what it means. But if we didn’t know, and had to deduce its meaning, we might be inclined to break it down into smaller parts. First, with our knowledge of words and the English language,Continue Reading