Category: Process

little mocos a novel in stories–book soundtrack–parts 1 and 2

Put together a quick listing of song titles I think work with each chapter of my book. Saw a few […]

Spring Break and we found ourselves in St. Louis for a quick day trip. We stopped off at Comet Coffee […]

So happy with the cover design for Little Mocos–thank you to @t_morrissey Morrissey and @TwelveWinters

D and I escaped from the election and Trump fallout and enjoyed the Hoagland Center for the Arts’ presentation of […]

Highway driving this summer and enjoying the fairly new Code Switch podcast. I also enjoy the written articles posted on NPR […]

Just a quick note at the end of a long year. I guess it is important to remind myself about some writing […]

Summer is for reading. And I have quite a few books stacked next to my bed. I used to worry […]

I have had so many conversations with students about how great old school mechanical typewriters are for the feel and […]

Happy to hear my story “Arkansas Flood 1964” will soon have a home in Pilgrimage Magazine.

The first time I heard Thug Notes I found it very funny and engaging. I played it for my Lit […]

Rereading Borges’ The Garden of Forking Paths this morning. And the idea of a chaotic novel or a novel with confounding […]

Sat down today–all day today–working towards an August 15 contest deadline for my Semi-Orphaned manuscript. Here is a quick excerpt: […]

Found this great wiki page on Tom Spanbauer and literary minimalism: http://creativewriting.wikia.com/wiki/Dangerous_Writing

Lately I’ve been obsessed with Stanley Kubrick films. I mention The Shining in class quite often to my students and how it […]

Some nights when I’m supposed to be working on my big fat failed novel. When I am supposed to be sleeping. […]