Here’s an update, and I know you care, on the continuing struggle of my latest project: I’ve established the Garrison family, their upscale house, their affluent status. I’ve introduced the two teenaged kids, who may figure importantly later. I’ve introduced … Continue reading
I’m writing this post instead of doing my real work, because my real work is stuck. I wrote a scintillating (ha!) Chapter 1, which got the new project off the ground. Hurrah for that. Now I’m staring at the proverbial … Continue reading
I’m looking down into the water, seeing my own hesitant reflection, trying to convince myself that I’m ready to dive. I know I’m not going to turn around and climb down off the board. I’m going to soar, gracefully, smoothly, … Continue reading
Any idea can lead to terrible actions, misunderstandings, unintended consequences. But some ideas seem especially dangerous on their face, not necessarily because they are wrong, not just because they are big ideas, not because acting on them would be imprudent, … Continue reading
I think Hemingway once advised, “Write drunk, edit sober.” Unfortunately, I can’t write drunk — doesn’t work for me. But I can be very sober when I edit. I’ve been editing my two “finished” novel manuscripts. The first one, now … Continue reading
Ten Wrong Ideas That Took Years to Unlearn Most of these ideas, I learned early in school and I absorbed them so thoroughly that it took me years, sometimes multiple decades, to discover that they were wrong, figure out why … Continue reading
Ten Problems I Have Not Solved I have worked on these mysteries for years, some of them, for decades, and have still not been able to come to satisfying solutions. I’ll elaborate on them as time permits. 1. How does … Continue reading
They were learned in overlapping parallel, not sequentially. Some took more than 10 years. I’ll elaborate as time permits. 1. How to play the piano 2. The fact that we don’t see with our eyes 3. The most basic mental … Continue reading
I’m ready to start my next fiction project, a novel, which I’ve been thinking about for a year. I’d like to address two main ideas. One is the bifurcation of American Society, into reactionary conservatives and experimental progressives, but I … Continue reading
Project 1: I have put my most recent novel, “Being Ruby,” to bed for a while. It will rest until July, when I will take it to the Taos Summer Writers’ Conference (http://www.unm.edu/~taosconf/). I hope to find out if the … Continue reading