I Believed a Quote That Wasn’t True
The author reflects on a misundertood quote and how it shaped him as a writer.
Of Butchery and Meta Data
He found plenty of references to surprises, shocks, twists, and endings that readers hadn’t seen coming. That suggests a very different kind of book.
Persistence and Determination or How Me and My Writer Friends Keep at It
This idea that “nothing in this world can take the place of persistence” has sustained me from the wilderness of Columbus, Ohio, to the tall buildings of Chicago, and the subway-fed boroughs of NYC and all the places I’ve lived between.
What it was like to be trapped inside the news on 9-11
I worked a few blocks from the towers the morning of 9-11. I felt the towers fall. Became part of “the most photographed day in history.” You might have even seen me on the news. Not that you could have recognized me covered in dust.
I can tell you the day unfolded very differently…
ReaderCon 33 and Sounding like Monty Python
ReaderCon 33 Yes, I did go to ReaderCon 33. It’s a convention less about readers than what they read. As the Con puts it: Although Readercon is modeled on general “science fiction conventions,” we feature a near-total focus on the written word. a place where “We support the subversive notion that thinking is fun.” — […]
The Alligator and the Drone
One evening not long ago In Eastern Ukraine, a soldier hunches over her control panel and examines the dark image sliding across her screen. It’s evening. She can make out trees. A strip of road. A field pocked with fox holes and craters left from Howitzer shells and HIMARS blasts. A tank sits behind a ridge of earth, its turret […]
Out of the Blue: A Tale of Perseverance Part Two
When the world turns upside down in an instant, where do you go from there?
