Welp, I’ve let a couple months go by without posting, and now enough has happened that it’s difficult to pick any one thing to talk about, so I guess I’ll just ramble and see what comes out. Right now, Paul and I are babysitting for our three and a half year old nephew. It’s a … Read more
Wherein I bask in the prospect of new employment and ruminate on the ways it could all implode.
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I wrote a short-short story called “My Hulk” that was posted yesterday in Altered Reality Magazine. Fun! I have a writing / social group that I attend occasionally, and our ten-minute writing warmup consists free-writing from prompts. One of the prompts a few weeks ago was “the hulk is real.” This inspired a few paragraphs … Read more
The folks at Screencraft (they run the contest that I won earlier this year) recently sent me some prompts / questions about my screenwriting journey in order to cull testimonials from my answers. They managed to find a few uplifting snippets to use in their Instagram / Twitter posts — and kudos to them for … Read more
Last fall, Paul and I got to write a segment for CREEPSHOW on AMC’s Shudder. We knew the Season 3 was happening, but didn’t know exactly when our segment would air, so it was fun when Paul walked in and read me an excerpt from a review at BloodyDisgusting.com. Yes—we were Episode 5, which dropped today! … Read more
Did you know that pretty much every day is a social media holiday? These holidays can be kind of ridiculous (“Nation Grilled Cheese Day” “Walking Day”) and are basically just prompts for generating “content”. I should possibly start using them more for this blog, since the “holiday” also creates a deadline… which is something I … Read more
Lately I seem to have a to-do list that grows faster than I can trim it, and it’s got me feeling ungrounded. In between checking items off, I just ran into the kitchen, sliced off a swath of butterscotch brownie and shoved it into my mouth as a little “reward.” But was it a reward … Read more
Lucky me! In July, I got to write a guest post for Shuffle Synchronicities – the music/memoir newsletter on Substack, and was interviewed on a super-interesting podcast called Pivot Point with Joseph Debeasi. If you enjoy reading about anxious dads, pressure and songs that inspire you to lose your virginity—or listening to how cancer and living … Read more
In the wake my guest spot on the podcast recently, I heard from some of my earliest friends — people I went to junior high or high school with, which was really lovely. One old classmate I heard from is the author of several published fantasy novels, which I find incredibly impressive! We got to … Read more