Archive for the 'On Writing' Category

Upcoming: Stories on Waiting

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

Waiting was something he disliked these days because it made him realize how much time he had on his hands. – Armand ML Inezian, “See Me” Want to join us in a wait-y story, based on the above quotation? Could be a paragraph, could be five bajillion paragraphs (read: 500 to 2000 words). Email me [...]

A Very Brief Manifesto

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

If I am ever a big fancy published author, and as a big fancy published author am invited to read a segment of my big fancy work for a public radio program or for some big fancy gala in my name, I hereby make this promise to you: I will not read to you with [...]

Hold Me, I’m Nervous

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

In ten short days, I’m submitting this week’s Branches story (#5) to the Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction Contest. I just started it tonight, (Note: tardy as usual. Man, beginning anything is terrifying. Before you know it — perhaps in a matter of minutes, seconds! — it could become something riddled with faults, and faulty [...]

In Which I Am Discovered

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

I just stumbled upon my first criticism from the reading public! It is on a funeral industry/management blog. Tim, You do find the most unusual stuff in your voyage thru the net. I liked the office site, but I don’t get the chick writing about the funeral. She must be one of those artsy-fartsy folks [...]

Branches: Prologue

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

Today is around the time I’d hope to crank out another story in the Branches series, but since I devoted last week to writing a fictional piece for Love & Radio around a series of voice mails (that, unfortunately, over the weekend became an internet sensation and thus useless to us), today is finding me [...]