If this truism is really true, then the more you know, the more you’ll have to write. So, yes, I’d like to go to Rome right now, please. Or Paris or Bangkok. For now, though, the travel opportunity I do have each month is driving to (more…)

If this truism is really true, then the more you know, the more you’ll have to write. So, yes, I’d like to go to Rome right now, please. Or Paris or Bangkok. For now, though, the travel opportunity I do have each month is driving to (more…)
I just got to “The End” of a manuscript I first began writing in 1999. 19-freakin’-99! That means this thing has been in my head and under my skin for 18 years. It’s old enough to smoke.
Of course, as any writer can tell you, “The End” does belong in quotation marks, because it’s really just a quotation of the last two words of a manuscript. It is not the end. It may have taken me eighteen years, but I’m now at the beginning of a daunting thing. (more…)