Sorry for the long absence from writing in any form. A quick re-cap: I am writing a novel using short posts via social media. This is inspired by the projects I have been closely involved with over the years, and others who have used this method. The PhD I'm working on has taken a great …
Starting a New Story. The Big Questions.
Soโฆ Iโm about to do something monumentally stupid. Worse than that, Iโm performing this extreme stupidity in a very public way. Iโm truly terrified (and maybe a tiny bit excited) of my next creative project. The short of it Iโll be writing a novel, using Twitter/X (if it can survive long enough), Bluesky, and maybe …
Subbing, writing yips, and into PhD-land
Submitting: "Welcome to the Desert of the Real" In the highly influential film The Matrix, the first time Neo is taken beyond his fabricated world he is theatrically welcomed to 'The Desert of the Real'. This it turns out, is the reality which greets most writers when they enter the harsh wastelands of agent submissions. …
