Category Archives: Miscellany
Stories Filtered Through Characters
A few days ago, I auditioned for a community theatre production, as I often do. I have also been to this venue a few times before. Like many auditions, in consisted of what we call “cold reading from the script. In other words, we read the script, with as much acting as we could, with …
Don’t Bore Yourself As A Writer
The frequent conundrum for the writer is whether to write “to the market” or to be true totally to one’s own vision no matter what and write accordingly. Often when I open a discussion in such a way, I proceed to explain how it is somewhere in the proverbial middle. Not this time. And while …
The One That Got Away
I’ve come to the sad conclusion that the biggest acceptance of my writing that I have thus far ever received will not come to pass. This is a hard one to swallow, I won’t pretend. About a year ago, one of the oldest continuously published magazine on the art of writing, one to which I …
Active Observing
I used to think that observation of the world around was a passive endeavor. If I am at the library looking out the window and it starts to rain, I am observing the rain. The older I get as a writer, the more I realize that this is not observing. At least it is not …
Second Look: Lodestone Crossing
It’s a long book of poetry. Experimental poetry. An oddity to end this series of looking back on my books, but such was the chronology. Lodestone Crossing Is a long poem broken into smaller chapters, derived from several sessions of “blackout” poetry. It’s a process wherein one takes a preexisting text, and removes (or blacks …
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