Let’s Be Friends
So I wrote you a letter, 2012. I’m not sure I’ve done that before. Every year I think about it. I know what I’m going to say. Plans for what we’re going to do together. Hopes and fears about what [...]
Letter to my Unborn Daughter
It was the night of December 13th, 2007, and I had resolved that day to ask your mother out for the second time in our somewhat tumultuous couple years of knowing each other. I was on good authority that this [...]
I Know This To Be True
1) I often dream of snakes and when I do they invariably try to bite or strangle me. Last night I dreamt I fell or was pushed down a ravine and into a shallow river where a green snake with [...]
In the middle of things
You have to understand, I’m used to giving up. If something doesn’t work consistently and, let’s face it, easily, I tend to abandon it in favour of starting again in the illusion that this time it’ll be better. So to [...]
Iteration
I tend to seek out interviews and podcasts from webcartoonists and video game developes when it comes to advice on how I should approach writing, and I think a lot of that has to do with the focus on process [...]
The Switch
It’s been less than a month since I started this change of writing very close to daily, exercising (although my record is spotty, it’s becoming less so) and staying almost completely within a food plan set up for me by [...]
The Month Ahead
With January winding down I’m looking toward what needs to be done in February and there’s quite a lot. Two scripts finally got their deadline and I’ve still got to put together my first grant package. If the grant goes [...]
The Walnut Effect
It’s been a busy couple of days. Chapter Two is in the can and I move on to Chapter Three tomorrow. My rough notes suggest that the book’ll be 13 chapters in total, but I really have no idea. Things [...]