https://nanowrimo.org/ I had heard of National Novel Writing Month, or nanowrimo, and I’ve even known a few people who participated in it over the years. For those of you who don’t know, it is an organization that helps the participants write a 50,000 word novel in the month of November.Continue Reading
I lost that first digital camera in a burglary. Perhaps the loss of that first digital camera was karma for the first 35MM camera. Let’s be clear, the acquisition of the 35MM camera was suspect, yes, but I did not steal the camera. I came to it honestly, but theContinue Reading
I have not been back to New Orleans since Katrina. I’m terrified to see the place. I was in New Orleans, briefly, in 2001 trying to hustle a buck. I was back there in the spring of 2005 as my ex and I were pushing our way to the Atlantic.Continue Reading
The clearest photographs I’ve ever taken were the several rolls of 35MM film from my time in Portugal in 1998. By this time, all of the large manual cameras had made way for very small point and shoot models. I had a tiny Olympus. The blues of the skies atContinue Reading
It was one of those wet and rainy summers as I recall. These sorts of summers happen on the Palmer Divide out there in Elbert County, Colorado. It was the summer of 1987, thirty years ago, in my youth. I lived in a small cabin with 16 other camp counselors.Continue Reading
Jeez, the sky was so clear today, the morning sun coming through the crystal atmosphere and the colors on the autumn trees was a sight. Very much a sight. As I walked Lucian to school I doubted I had ever seen the world in such crystal clarity. I mean, notContinue Reading
With the end so near at hand, and with so few pieces left on the board, the execution of the final blows becomes the focus. For me, in my writing year, it feels good to know how the end gets played out before I start. The endgame, happening in theContinue Reading
I can divide a year up in so many ways. I can do it seasonally, but here in Colorado, there really aren’t seasons like there are in other places. Sometimes the spring feels like winter and sometimes there are warm days in January when the sun feels near and theContinue Reading
I overheard a conversation today between two young women. I say young women, but I would imagine the two of them nearing 30. Anyhow, two women much younger than me. One said to the other “Can’t you multitask?” and the second said, “Of course.” I tried my best to keepContinue Reading
I think the best thing a writer can do is to set up a list of goals. I know a list of goals seems like it would be enough, but it isn’t. To add to the list of goals, I think a writer needs to set up a timeline completeContinue Reading