I admit that this page is mostly a notebook at this point where I write ideas I can revisit at a later date. I’m okay with that. 2019 was a year of illness for me. I developed agoraphobia that kept me inside for over three months and I’m chalking most of the year up as…
I’ve been watching a lot of old episodes of A Show with Ze Frank on YouTube. As part of the show, an artist animates dreams submitted by viewers. Their experiences are SO different than how I dream. I dream stories like I’m watching a movie or sometimes living as one of the characters but always…
As I’ve been mentioning for the last year or so, I’m an official with New Hampshire Roller Derby. Despite it being the fastest growing sport in the country (and possibly the world), it’s still an amateur sport that most people don’t know has made a resurgence (or if they do, they presume it’s much like…
Like so many creative people, I struggle with depression. I’m one of the fortunate ones in that I received help for the problem early on in my life and have been able to learn the warning signs of when things are bottoming out. That doesn’t mean anything’s been fixed. You don’t fix depression. You learn…
I always take a little break between manuscripts. I consider it a “voice reset.” I used to be so jazzed I would immediately roll into a new project, but I found the voice of the next project sounded exactly the same as the one I had just finished. It inevitably led to a lot of…
Some friends and I were talking about individualized education, which is a real passion of mine. That led to stories about our grade school experiences and those times when the teachers didn’t know what to do with the advanced kids (set them aside, have them self-teach, and assign extra work was my horrible experience). This…
I don’t normally do a year in review because my pursuit of publication has been an ongoing effort for over four years now and that story has only changed somewhat. Write a novel -> query, write a novel -> query, start new year, repeat. That was 2009 through 2011. Then came 2012, the year of…
Wow, it’s been a long time since I posted. Mea culpa. I tore a tendon in my shoulder and the recuperation (ongoing) has really thrown my routines for a loop. I’ve been working from home a lot or not working and going to physical therapy a lot. It may have been a good habit to…
When I get up in the morning, I write. When I get to work, I spend all day in a cubicle on a computer. When I head home, I write. When I get home, I am often on a computer. I live the classic American sedentary lifestyle. I type 99 words per minutes according to…