A friend at work shared this on Twitter yesterday: Friends, over the next few days I’ll write an article called “top 10 things I learned in 2015.” Will you write your own? I want to read it! — Ken Tabor (@KenTabor) December 29, 2015 So what the hell — why not accept the challenge? But […]
Archives for 2015
The Clarity of Vision
I sometimes have those days when I think about easy. I think about an old series I started, that rough draft of a second novel tucked away that feels like something I jettisoned that could now come in handy. It’s comforting thinking about how — while challenging enough — the book was not hard to […]
The New Podcast
Last week I launched the first episode of the new podcast. So far, people seem to like it. I pushed the release up a bit because the story, in its own little way, is a vague Thanksgiving story. If you’re in the states and traveling this week (or you just need a 7 minute and […]
Keeping it Short
As I work on finalizing the release of Not about Lumberjacks later this month, my mind has drifted to short stories. It’s strange after being focused on nothing but novel-length fiction in recent years. I’ve mentioned before that I used to write short fiction regularly, back when two friends and I met every couple weeks […]
The October Calm
I mentioned that the September social media break was not as much of a break as I planned. October, however, was what I needed in September. I locked out the noise of social media and got a lot of things done. So what did I get done? The things I completed are things I would […]
This Week’s Prometheus Moment
Every so often, I come across something that makes a certain facet of life feel like it goes from darkness to light. Occasionally it’s something large (bordering on epiphany), but most times it’s something smaller. Even smaller things, though, can seem big when a certain problem is solved or a new way of looking at […]
The Guy in Your MFA
I recently wrote about writers writing about writers. In an earlier draft of the entry, I mentioned a guy in several college classes I was in. He never actually wrote anything (as much as any of us could tell), but he talked about writing a lot. He rolled his own cigarettes, carried around a copy […]
Are Writers Liars?
I sometimes feel like I begin too many entries, here, with, “So I was listening to Jess Walter and Sherman Alexie on the Tiny Sense of Accomplishment podcast…” But it’s that good! In the most recent episode, Sherman and Jess talk about writers and lying. Some quotes from that section: I make stuff up at […]
Writing about Writers
[This is an entry I started writing last week and set aside. Then, a couple days ago at work, I chatted with a friend about writing. Specifically, we began talking about John Irving’s love of writing about writers — and how it mostly bores us. So…I decided to not scrap this entry.] Earlier today, I […]
What is Real?
I saw someone on a podcast community I frequent talk about what they do in their “real job.” It’s a term I’ve heard used frequently: I really love sculpting, but my real job is software development… There’s nothing I’d rather do in life than paint, but my real job is working as an admin… I […]
Lazy Weekend Blues
I had a list of things I planned to do this past weekend. It wasn’t a list written on a piece of paper or captured by an app to remind me to do these things at a specific time. It’s the list of things I do every weekend: I planned to write and record podcasts. […]
Truth in Fiction
I have a friend who hates magicians. He feels they mock the audience in an act of, “I know something you don’t know!” (There are many people who feel this way about magicians.) Me, on the other hand…I like good magic. I don’t mind that the person on stage knows truths I don’t know. When […]
Keeping it Short
Last night, I did something for the first time in what feels like years… I started a new short story. I’m not sure if it’s actually been years, or only feels that way. In recent years, my focus has been on novels and podcasts. Outside of Megan Mayhew Bergman and Dan Chaon, I’m not sure […]
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