Category: Writing

• Hulk SMASH deadline!

  I was in full-on magazine writer mode today. Cranked out 1,300 quality words for a freelance story with the able assistance of my neighborhood Cosi, their free wi-fi, and the…

• Sci-Fi Author Richard Matheson Speaks to What All Authors Hope For

  Science fiction author and screenwriter Richard Matheson died this week, having contributed immensely to the sci-fi canon with some of the best loved episodes of The Twilight Zone and the…

• Because It’s Monday, You Need a Lego Freddy Mercury

  Suddenly, I feel the need to sing “Somebody to Love” really, REALLY loud.

• Another Satellite Office

  Summer weather is here and with it the joys of answering work e-mails poolside. Sometimes freelancing can ironically leave you feeling trapped at home, and sometimes it really frees you.…

• A Barbecue-Basted Lesson in Creating Honest Characters

  What you see here is a bottle of barbecue sauce. With it I will give you some tips on writing compelling and honest characters. Why barbecue sauce, and why specifically…

• …. And No Disco Dancing

  Just returned yesterday from a week of communing with The Mouse and about a billion of his disciples. More thoughts to come, but this was worthy of individual note.

• Jak Smyrl and the Joy of the Picasso Napkin

  There’s an old story about a woman who approached Pablo Picasso in a cafe and asked him to draw her something on a napkin. However, before he would give it…

• Satellite Office

  Temperatures spiked to a summerlike 87 degrees today, so I decided to take things outside. Not to say that my job is better than yours, but there are worse ways…

• Meme-ography

• Thanks to Uncle Ray

  Those of us who are artists have lots of aunts and uncles to thank for what we do. I tend to claim anyone who’s had a measurable effect on my…