Let’s start with the crow. I really, really wanted a moody picture of a crow eating trash on the sidewalk. I’d put it in black and white, scratch it up a bit, maybe even tilt the image. You know, real avant…
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Happy New Year!
Here’s my resolution, straight up and unfiltered: more better writing. I mean more in the quantity way, better in the quality way, and more better in the mo’ bettah way. First, this means an increase in frequency since, after all,…
Holy Smokes I Wrote a Book!
Ha ha, if you didn’t already feel the cloying desperation of self-promotion from the intro page or the writing page then perhaps another splash of the book cover will catch you: I put this in because I just heard, through the…
Posted in Writing Tagged with: adventure, book, border to border, land rover, off-road, travel, writing
Young and Stupid
Really, the whole thing could’ve ended much worse. An old truck, abused through decades of off-road adventures. A young, stupid, and inexperienced driver setting off across a continent that has killed many seasoned and gritty pioneers. That it ended it…
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Free Fiction Day!
Oh what the heck, I’m feeling generous. I’ve got a few hundred thousand words of writing bouncing around that might never see the greater world of publishing so I’m going to release a little bit of a recent manuscript. This…
Wonderful Grey
Sometimes some grey skies are good. Finally we have a full day of cloud cover here in San Diego. While it’s not really fall it does help put me in a pensive mood. I’m writing up the outline for another…
Everyone is a Character
When I walk down the street and pass by people my first instinct is to put them into narrow and tidy categories: hipster, corporate jerk, skater burnout, sorority girl. But the problem is, nobody is that simple. When someone sees…
Book Origins
Where do book ideas come from? My first book was just a retelling of an epic Land Rover adventure I undertook, with bits of history and culture stuffed in the narrative cracks like cotton batting in the planks of a…
On Writing a Blog
One of the benefits of steady writing is the chance to inadvertently spit out a gem among all the chaff. A gem would not be the previous sentence where I mixed metaphors and generally muddled the point. Here’s what I…
Writing – Seeing Emotion
Lars swung out in pure rage. Even though his eyes didn’t work his mind could see emotion. Sadness was a throbbing continuation of the black that defined his universe. Fear came in jagged blue shocks that raced through his mind…
