For years, I’ve wanted to document my writing process more. Obviously, I’ve shared quite a bit, here, but never a true Beginning-to-End effort. That’s about to change. The Process Series I finally started creating short videos about all that goes into creating an episode of Not About Lumberjacks. My goal is, when it’s done, to […]
The Best of Not About Lumberjacks
I’m terrible at asking for help, but if you like this blog, or the stories I write, sharing this would be appreciated… Not About Lumberjacks On November 17, 2015, I loaded the first episode of Not About Lumberjacks. It’s a story about a dog who eats everything in sight. It still holds up for me… […]
The Gift of Stories
The most recent story on Not about Lumberjacks was written as a gift for a friend. If you have 6 minutes and want to listen to how the story came to be, go here. If not, here’s the quick version: a good friend in a writing group I was once in rolled his truck in […]
A Year Without Lumberjacks
Yesterday, Not about Lumberjacks turned one year old. It started with a story about a dog who eats everything in sight: “Gutterball.” As I’ve mentioned elsewhere, I ended up writing more new stories in the first year of the show than I planned. And the way those new stories developed has surprised me quite a […]
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 […]
Not About Lumberjacks
This post is not about lumberjacks. That would be silly, to make this a post about lumberjacks… Who would do such a thing? * * * I recently mentioned the goal of The Juggling Writer has always been this: To keep writing at the front of my mind by writing about it, and hoping it […]