Shared Universes
One of the greatest things I ever did for myself in terms of my writing was to build a structure within which I could monitor and make explicit the links between the different stories that I am telling. Being able to see…
Keep It Regular
One of the greatest things I ever did for myself in terms of my writing was to build a structure within which I could monitor and make explicit the links between the different stories that I am telling. Being able to see…
How much can you do, and how much are you doing? I often ask myself this, and I am often asked this by those I work with, and those I work for. I get asked by those who I am surrounded by.…
I don’t like the idea that what I write is the product of what I read, or what I watch, or the childhood I had, because that makes all these works I produce little more than the end product of a causal…
I read the things I read about the state of the world, and the idea that all of it fake news doesn’t hold. Why? Because the accused keep confirming the data out there and then arguing semiotics about what the events mean,…
My whole structure of the network I am building to support my writing is designed to promote novelty for me, because how else do you keep it interesting? How else do you cater to the different tides in which you find yourself…
An intention to spread good news, and to not add to the flow of problems seems to be bearing fruit for me. I feel like I am in a better place creatively, and psychically too. Digging into the crap that people liberally…
When I am writing I am not sure how deep into the story I need to be before I totally know what it is. There are those stories that I write where a fair chunk of it is unpacking the significance of…
Reading Burroughs attuned me to coincidences – like I look up and see my cat Miracle looking at me, and then look back down and see my last post on this site titled Miracles. By being receptive to these rhymes in life you…
It is fun to be part of other people’s projects and to have your own way of doing things challenged – it often allows you to return to your own game with some new moves, and that is something I am always…
Write on the fly. Sit down, open the laptop, or the notepad, or the typewriter, and rattle something out. It’s a discipline, and it is something that you should get yourself grooved in on. I don’t think I am ever not working…