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Writing is a Solitary Business
Most people think that writing is what we do at the PC or laptop or with pad and pen. That we live inside our heads and only when actively pounding away at the keyboard or scritching madly on the pad....
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Puzo and Writing
On my refrigerator, stuck to the side with magnets, is a piece of paper, about eight by seven inches, with the upper margin torn and ratty from where I ripped it out of a magazine about 20 years ago....
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Get Out of the Way!
It’s one of those days when RL (real life) is getting in the way ofany kind of writing, even this blog. Between other stuff (which could go in caps, like OTHER STUFF) a co-worker fell at work and I...
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The Writing Life Vs. the Married Life
Mario Puzo once said, “Never let a domestic quarrel ruin a day’s writing. If you can’t start the next day fresh, get rid of your wife.” Okay, I’m not espousing that. (Clever play on spouse, yes?) But...
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Fall or Fly?
So here’s a little hard reality about the writing life – sometimes there ain’t much money in it. On March 30, 2012, I walked away from a 17+ year career in the entertainment lighting industry to try...
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On not writing, and poorly quoting, and onions. That last should really be...
Yesterday there was a piece going around Facebook that was a link to the satire site The Onion. The article linked was titled “Find The Thing You’re Most Passionate About, Then Do It On Nights And...
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Robert Jackson Bennett: The Writing Life
There’s this excellent phrase Stephen King came up with about writing: he described points in writing a story in which he wasn’t sure about what would happen, in which case he would let it sit back and...
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