The Tyranny of The New Yorker Magazine
I won’t lie to you. I’ve been totally swamped doing edits on my book over the past month. It’s a tale I’ll eventually tell in one of my videos, of course, but I’m too much in the midst of it right now....
View ArticleBig Projects, Small Lists
I’m a total coward. When I’m faced with a big project – something time consuming, something that will require sacrifices to be made – my instinct is to run away. Fast. No looking back. For that reason,...
View Article10,000 Hours
So I originally intended this video to be about the way I once organized my whole submission plan for literary magazines. I had this fancy pants spreadsheet characterizing my every submission move. The...
View ArticleNetworking for the Cowardly and Terrified
So it should start becoming more and more obvious that I’m going through a writer-identity crisis as things get closer to the release of my book. And lucky you — you get to be a witness to my crisis....
View ArticleBeyond Microsoft Word… Or Not
I started out this video with the intent of trying to get writers to stop using Microsoft Word and ended up paying tribute to an overly-sentimental romantic comedy from the 80s. It’s a new level of...
View ArticleProject Mismanagement
So when I showed a good friend of mine an early version of this video, he said, “you are out of your mind.” Actually, he had a more colorful way to say it. Basically, the original video made it sound...
View ArticleNotes from the (Failure) Field
This month I have a short video with a bit of an update on two fronts related to what’s been going on with me (along with, of course, the emotional baggage that goes along with any of my stories). For...
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A Brilliant Book Tour in the Works
Damn. This has been a tough month. A tough month with very little writing. A month of reading at bookstores around the west coast and doing interviews and doing a not-so-great job at publicizing the...
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Weaseling Out of Literary Things… To Do Literary Things
I was supposed to return to my monthly Writer Unboxed column this month. But I’m not. Well… I’m here at the moment, but I’m only here to say that I’m not going to be here. Make sense? But I have an...
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How Much Wandering Before I’m No Longer Lost?
photo by Rick Harrison We’re thrilled that we’ve managed to successfully twist the arm of an former WU’er, bringing him back for a guest post, because he is a favorite of ours! Please welcome Yuvi...
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Writing Through Pain
It’s great to be back at the fabulous Writer Unboxed blog. I used to post Failed Writer videos here every month, but I’ve been gone for a while. My online presence is just a blip these days. One big...
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Writing a Novel When You’re Too Busy to Write a Novel (Video)
Ahoy hoy! It’s great to be back at Writer Unboxed! I admit I’ve disappeared a bit from social media and from some literary scenes (and from some non-literary scenes). There are a few concrete excuses...
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Accepting the Multi-Creative Lifestyle (Video)
I’ve always struggled with being monogamous when it comes to my creative projects. Sometimes this comes at the cost of not finishing one project or another. (I have hundreds of unfinished stories...
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Embracing the I-don’t-know-ness
I’m just one year shy of being 50 years old and I’ve been thinking a lot about a conversation I had with a coworker when I was in my early 20s. It wasn’t really a conversation as much as it was this...
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Expose Your Mess
So the last time I posted a video on Writer Unboxed, I talked up bathing in the unknown. And it got me thinking, even if the unknown is a powerful place, what’s next? For me, after some bathing, I...
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Writing a Novel When You’re Too Busy to Write a Novel (Video)
Ahoy hoy! It’s great to be back at Writer Unboxed! I admit I’ve disappeared a bit from social media and from some literary scenes (and from some non-literary scenes). There are a few concrete excuses...
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Accepting the Multi-Creative Lifestyle (Video)
I’ve always struggled with being monogamous when it comes to my creative projects. Sometimes this comes at the cost of not finishing one project or another. (I have hundreds of unfinished stories...
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Embracing the I-don’t-know-ness
I’m just one year shy of being 50 years old and I’ve been thinking a lot about a conversation I had with a coworker when I was in my early 20s. It wasn’t really a conversation as much as it was this...
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Expose Your Mess
So the last time I posted a video on Writer Unboxed, I talked up bathing in the unknown. And it got me thinking, even if the unknown is a powerful place, what’s next? For me, after some bathing, I...
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Make Something Terrible
I recently got some insight into my creative process from my kid’s music teacher… who is now also my music teacher… even though I previously had no skill or interest in music. But he’s really more of a...
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