Announcement… Novella Time 20 May 2020 I have begun writing a novella, that odd in-between genre, much too long to be a short story, but rarely long enough to be called a novel in most literary…
Author post… Recursions, Part 11: “Ulysses,” by James Joyce 10 Sep 201828 Sep 2018 This is the eleventh in a series of short critical looks at books of literary criticism. Yes, a writer writing about writers who write about writers! I composed these for…
Author post The Most Important Thing A Writer Can Do Is Write 7 Aug 2018 There is one indispensable step to writing, and that is that you must sit down and write. This is technically untrue, and was not such a hard and fast rule…
Author post To Lie for Truth’s Sake: the Novelist’s Conundrum 20 Apr 201820 Apr 2018 The job of a fiction writer is to lie. Still, if it were only to lie, you could dedicate yourself to advertising or politics instead, and accept troubled sleep as…
Author post… Recursions, Part 10: “The Dawn Watch,” by Maya Jasanoff 4 Mar 20184 Mar 2018 This is the tenth in a series of short critical looks at books of literary criticism. Yes, a writer writing about writers who write about writers! I composed these for…
Author post… Recursions, Part 9: “Finding a Form,” by William H. Gass 7 Dec 20177 Dec 2017 This is the ninth in a series of short critical looks at books of literary criticism. Yes, a writer writing about writers who write about writers! I composed these for…
Author post… Recursions, Part 8: “A Moveable Feast,” by Ernest Hemingway 26 Oct 201727 Oct 2017 This is the eighth in a series of short critical looks at books of literary criticism. Yes, a writer writing about writers who write about writers! I composed these for…
Author post Getting Over Yourself: Advice for Novelists 17 Sep 201720 Oct 2017 There are many ways to become a good writer, but one of the best ways to become a great one–besides giving yourself a thorough grounding in the mechanics of language–is…
Author post No Regrets 8 Aug 201710 Aug 2017 Long ago (but not far away), back at the dawn of time, I made a decision for which I've often been mocked and derided over the concatenated decades since: I…
Announcement… 85,021 6 Aug 20178 Aug 2017 The third novel now stands at 85,021 words. This is close to what I'd envisioned as its final bulk, and in fact the first draft is close to finished. Just…
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