The Insomniac Writer

                Today, I am filled with worry for things beyond my control.  I am worried because I cannot will what is good and right into this hard world no matter how hard I may try. I am worried because for every decent father there is a dead-beat mother, for every person of love and truth [...]

That’s the usual advice, right? Write what you know. So, what do you know? Seems like a valid question, I’m just not sure I know the answer – at least, not in a way that I can easily apply to my writing.
I know my own life story and the elements it involves. I know love [...]

Internet has been down for a two days, but I’ll be okay for the weekend because I can post from H-town (where I am visiting my good buddy, Scott, a.k.a host of the Write Crowd podcast.) I think I’ve come to the decision to post ALMOST every day, because even though I am completing my [...]

So the new year brings with it the opportunity to start a fresh project. This, of course, does not mean I won’t be writing and editing other projects, but I wanted a daily project to keep me working on a schedule.
The project is simple, really. For an entire year (January 1, 2009 – December 31, [...]

A little more than a week after completing the 3-Day Novel Challenge, I find myself faced with multiple contest possibilities and zero (I mean, nada!) time. I won’t know how “Call Me Vic” does in the 3-Day Novel Contest until January, so that work is off the table and cannot be submitted elsewhere (or it [...]