Category Archives: Writing process

It’s Time to Start

Cooking, Fiction, Inspiration, Writing, Writing process, Writing the first book, ,

I’m not sure I’m good enough to write this story, but I am good enough to try.

See that stack of notecards? That’s the book. Also in this picture are earplugs, my crappy reading glasses that give me a headache, a referral card for an endodontist, some magic elixir, a corrector pen, a mood ring, and my lucky fake succulent, among other junk. I think that’s about right.

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This week as I finalized and outline and uttered every curse word I know while maneuvering through the heavenly hellscape that is Scrivener, I alternated between panic, despair, and occasional breaks-in-the-cloud rays of optimism.

My goals are: Continue reading It’s Time to Start →

Fixed Up — Watch It Now!

Fixed Up, Humor, Publications, Writing, Writing process
(A link to the film is at the bottom of this post)

A while ago, the luminescent Joy Guerrieri Borgardt and I began writing a script for what we thought would be a web series. Continue reading Fixed Up — Watch It Now! →

Go Tell It on the Mountain of Post-Its

Writing, Writing process, Writing the first book

Every piece of writing advice ever swirled around my head this past week. Every story and article and essay I’ve read. Every movie and show I’ve watched. Every song, every conversation, every moment.

It’s terrible.

Maybe this is all a sign that I’m ready to stop getting ready and start getting started. Continue reading Go Tell It on the Mountain of Post-Its →