Category: Writing

• For the Love of the Mix Tape

  Some of you might actually be old enough to remember making good, old-fashioned mix tapes (if you do you’ll know the significance of the picture above). Maybe. But since I…

• Your Monday (No, Wait … Tuesday) Morning Motivation. You’re Welcome.

• Quit Yer Bitchin’. Your Day at the Office Isn’t as Bad as You Think

  OK, so your boss is an anal-retentive weenie, your work brings you zero satsifaction and your coworkers are backstabbing losers. But consider that you could be this guy: Feeling better…

• Oh, Hey … Did I Mention I Was On the Radio?

  As I mentioned here a few weeks ago, I was scheduled to appear on Destinines: The Voice of Science Fiction, a fantastic weekly radio show out of Stony Brook, N.Y.,…

• A Little Motivation for Your Monday

• Tonight, I Invade Your Earholes (In the Most Pleasant of Ways)

  As I’ve written here before, I love being on the radio. It’s like TV, but without the need to actually be handsome or … you know, wear pants. So when…

• Summer Reading Can Still Be Foundational Reading

  So I spent a good portion of the spring and early summer slogging through an exceptionally dense non-fiction tome on Napa Valley that was serving as background for a large…

• A Little Midweek Perspective

  See that black thing up in the corner? That’s Saturn, with its rings evident toward the top of the frame. And that tiny dot with the arrow pointing to it?…

• A Funky Friday Selection in Honor of Papa Getting a Brand New Bag

  I’ll be the first person to warn anyone thinking of going into either full-time fiction writing or freelance writing (both of which I do) that the revenue stream is, at…

• The Lawnmower: My Nemesis, My Muse

  Thanks to the borderline monsoon conditions we’ve been experiencing on the East Coast so far this summer, I’ve gotten exactly zero reprieve from my weekly task of lawn length maintenance.…