Is Writing Really Work?

Is Writing Really Work?

Is Writing Really Work? I have two favorite – and completely opposite in message – little stories about being a writer. The first is the tale, not sure how tall it is, of a writer who went to the Amazon and embedded with a tribe that had never interfaced...
Death by a Thousand Compromises

Death by a Thousand Compromises

Death by a Thousand Compromises I, like many writers, have tried my hand at many forms. Plays, novels, essays, poems, short form animation, non-fiction, newsletters and perhaps the most complex form of all, screenplays. There is somewhat of a descending scale of...
The Rabbit Hole and Writer’s Block

The Rabbit Hole and Writer’s Block

The Rabbit Hole and Writer’s Block When you are writing you go “down the rabbit hole.” This is a pretty apt analogy. A story is just an entire creation that depends for all its parts on itself. You create not only what is in the rabbit hole but why Alice leaps, who...
My Life in a Nutshell, Emphasis on Nut

My Life in a Nutshell, Emphasis on Nut

My Life in a Nutshell, Emphasis on Nut My father used to say, as a key to pronouncing our last name, that you have to sneeze when you say it.  It works! He said some other things about sneezes when I was teenager that had to do with them being the closest thing to an...