Harlan Ellison is famous for a bit of performance art (among other things). He sits in a bookstore and writes a short story, store employees taping each page up in the window as he writes them. He has no chance to revise, and the audience gets to see the story as it happens, so to [...]
Warning: The following contains a description of an obscure medical condition that may lead to uncomfortable visualizations of… Rush Limbaugh’s butt.
Rush Limbaugh got into some hot water this week. Agreeing with a caller, he referred to soldiers against the war as “phony soldiers,” implying that disagreement with our mad policy in Iraq makes a soldier [...]
Since “Coffee and waffles”, I’ve written precisely nothing. I keep thinking about it. I keep meaning to. But faced with the choice between writing and napping, I become narcoleptic. Or reading a novel becomes the most important thing in the world. Or, god help me, I hard reset my phone just to reinstall all my [...]
Because the best ideas come to me in the shower, of course. This morning, as I was getting ready for work, I had a mini-epiphany about Revelation.
After my writing session two nights ago at Village Inn, I’d noticed a few things shaping up in this retelling. Daniel seems both more capable and a little more [...]
1,200 words on Revelation tonight. I attribute this to two things.
1. Coffee and waffles. I work swings, so when I get off work at 10pm, I have the option of either going straight home or stopping for a little smackrel of something on the way home. As it happens, there’s a Village Inn near my [...]