Category Archives: Writing
Annual Repost: “Yes, Virginia, There Was a Writer.”
I had forgotten how long it had been since I first posted my thoughts on the famous “Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus” editorial. I tend to repost a link to it every year, so that may be one reason why it doesn’t seem to have been around on my blog for as long …
“Late for Leaving”
Before my time, my mother worked with this guy who would often leave early on his lunch break, stay away for three hours, and come back about 30 minutes before the end of the work day. Usually he would mention that he did this because he didn’t want to be “late for leaving.” There’s a …
Slog.
The last few weeks, maybe months, I’ve been up against some internal resistance in my fiction writing. I once described this experience not as writer’s block, but as writer’s weight, and I seem to be suffering from a heavy dose recently. I don’t know exactly why, I wish I did, so I could fix it. As with …
Goodreads Giveaway
I’ll be giving away one free paper copy of The Beacons I See in a random drawing on Goodreads. If you;d like a chance to win, simply go to the novel’s page and click the button you find there to register for the drawing. (You must have a Goodreads account.) You have until October 1, …
More for Miscellany
Believe it or not, I don’t try to out and out sell everything I write. This shouldn’t shock any of you; I offered my essay contest earlier this year for free. (Download a copy of Thoughts I Wrote Down Because I Hate Talking to People if you haven’t yet.) But I also don’t want to publish …
