Writing is not all moonbeams and unicorn farts, it really isn’t. But it is a damn sight better than digging ditches or working in a cardboard box factory. Though, as I recently discussed with a co-worker, there is something very zen about making cardboard boxes; you can disconnect your mind and get to that part […]
Isle Of Dogs – The Home Stretch
Of late I’ve had a few readers asking me for an update on the Oliver & Jack series, which I truly appreciate. In the midst of working on the book, I took a little road trip and hoped to come home refreshed but instead was only tired. Still, the pictures of that trip practically took […]
Fagin’s Boy – Revised Content
I recently determined that I would continue what I’d started in Fagin’s Boy and write a series. The story of Oliver and Jack was still resonating in my head, and the characters kept telling me that they had more to say, more adventures to have, more of a relationship to build. So how to do […]
NaNoWriMo – Day Twenty-Eight and Twenty-Nine
Today I worked on Oliver and Jack, writing Jack’s point of view with great relish. He likes to use bad words when he thinks, and knows that his beloved Nolly would not like to hear them. But, seeing as how Jack was raised by someone who felt that stealing was a good occupational choice, he […]
I Needed All the Help I Could Get – And I Got It
My friend Amy and I spent the brunt of last summer in coffee shops. She to work on her MFA, me to drink a lot of coffee and pretend to write so I could finish up that book I’d been working on for years. I counted on her a great deal to be inspirational in […]
Hit 100,000 Words Today
Along about 2006 or so, I decided that I was going to write that novel that was sitting around in my head. It was troublesome to keep so many ideas in my brain, and besides, the characters were bored with waiting. So I wrote it. I also got laid off during a Reduction in Force, […]