I’m one of those writers…the kind that doesn’t use an outline. I’ve tried using outlines. Oh, how I’ve tried using outlines! I’ve even been vaguely successful a few times. When I wrote independent comic books, I outlined. For series stuff I’ve worked on, I make notes that could be deemed outlines. Rough outlines, but outlines […]

It’s with a heavy heart that I’m announcing this morning — after 327 entries, here — that I’ve come to an end with The Juggling Writer. I think I’m done with all writing, in fact. No more blog entries, articles, or novels. I’m just out of ideas, and I like working a day job so […]

During my 101-day social media break, I cut back on the number of blogs in my blog reader. But one category always seems to grow, despite my best intentions of taming it: my “Writing/Publishing” category. On any given day, all kinds of information comes through — much of it about the future of publishing. “E-books […]

Paul Lamb recently chatted on his blog about craving fellowship with like-minded writers. For years, more every other Wednesdays than not, I met with two friends for a writing group. We kept it small by design, and while it lasted, it was a very good thing. Since the group has dissolved, I find satisfaction in […]

Sometime this morning, after a groundhog tells us all what to expect for the rest of the winter, an armadillo will leave its burrow down here and the message will be: “It’s Texas — who the hell knows what to expect!” It’s been in the mid 70s, lately. While winter in Texas is much different […]

In honor of the 300th Juggling Writer post: I’ve still never seen the movie, 300, but this makes me laugh every time I see it. Thanks for sticking around for the first 300; here’s to many more posts! * * * Monday, it’s back to a normal update: a review of Ann Patchett’s The Getaway […]

It seems fitting to begin the new year by reading a new book: Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, a book about children born at the stroke of midnight in India in August of 1947 — at the very time of the country’s independence. Reading Rushdie’s introduction to the 25th anniversary of the book, he talks about […]

2011 wasn’t as busy a year for The Juggling Writer as last year. I’m sure, in part, that starting a new job was partially to blame for only 93 entries for the year — not the 150 entries of the year before. But it was still a good year. I wrote almost 95 entries this […]