work in progress

  • Work in Progress, Spec Pub’s Story Crafting Workbook is here

    Work in Progress, Spec Pub’s Story Crafting Workbook is here

    When you start out as a workshop called “Writers Block” you come up with a lot of methods for getting a story on the page. River Eno, Susan Tulio and I have struggled our way through four collections of utter speculation, starting with Roanoke where we had no idea what we were doing. Read more

  • February Finally Ends After Four Years

    February Finally Ends After Four Years

    ‘ve never been a fan of this second month of the year, but I’ve tried to find ways to mitigate it. I’ve leaned in, leaned out, hunkered down and gotten out of town. . .But March is forthcoming, at last, and with it some fun news. Read more

  • The writing zone

    The writing zone

    Friday night I had an idea. It started out as a spark, a character, a situation and it rapidly spread into a fire, a plot, subplots, background, twists, heartbreaks, climax and resolution. I wrote the first chapter and then I sat outside for fifteen minutes, staring into space. If anyone had come across me at Read more