A Man Of Time

Costume-ready... but how will I really look at the writing conferences? The suspense is killing you; but wait. Keep on reading! Right... I've done conferences before, but never back-to-back conferences for two weeks with The Stoned Theory Of My Own Destruction and Lionheart Leaks. How do I stay focused? How do I practice? Why not try eavesdropping? Try it every day. Just write something. Anything. It's a great writing prompt. And it can be a single line, exchange observed, or

Just getting to the end of Firestarter... and I'm already starting to read a new book. What is it about Margaret Atwood and Stephen King with 1984? Writers use old ideas and now I'm starting to read a stirring tale set in WWII. It's punny, because it'll be an absolute thrill-ride to go to Thrillerfest, to take a master class with Andrew Gross and work on Lionheart Leaks. More matter-of-fact, I'm going to The Windsor International Writers Conference around the same time in Jul

Beyond the half-empty bottle of rum... there's this diary. The glass-half-empty is negativity looking down on your work and it's not a productive way to start. After much thought, I'm returning to write journal entries in this diary (with apologies to Hunter S. Thompson). My short diary entries are going to keep you updated on stuff going on in my literary world. The decision to go back to writing these blogs started with taking a short fiction workshop and then yesterday goi