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I was surfing the web the other day and ran across a great and funny article about five authors who were tougher in real life than were the characters they invented. Yes, of course, I was hoping I’d be one of the five—in vain, alas. Kinda tough to be more kick-butt than a Jedi-ace-X-wing pilot, […]

Yesterday I got sent an e-mail from a friend with the subject line “Do NOT accept the New Dollar Coins!” It had been forwarded several times, so I worked my way down through the headers and finally got to the meat of the issue. The email reported that these new Presidential Dollar coins (issued in […]

The health care debate is driving me nuts. It is typical politics at play, where each side takes up positions that are so radical that they know they will never work. Why? Because they will compromise somewhere in the middle. This gives them a chance to cover their asses when it comes election time. They […]

The newest issue of The Secrets is out and available as part of the Volume Six Subscription Package. This issue covers story construction and the methods for finding and building a character growth arc into any story. While not every story requires a character growth arc; all stories are better for having them. Including character […]

Life is narrative. We all look at our lives as stories. Heck, we have biographies and autobiographies that tell us the stories. Our daily traffic in stories is gossip, or cautionary tales or heart-warming stories of faith and redemption. Heck, what I do for a living is to write up imaginary adventures in the lives […]

Hey, I just got through a hellish two-day period last week in which temps here in Arizona hit around 110 and I had zero air conditioning. As I joked over on Twitter: it was so hot, Satan called to let me know I was getting credit for time served. I figured August is going to […]

Ed Grabianowski blogged about a talk I gave at Origins in June, 2009 entitled Writing Careers in the Post Paper Age. Ed did a good job summarizing an hour’s worth of lecture, but a couple of points generated a lot of controversy his blog’s comment section. (My favorite is the screed that began, in reference […]