Counting it down. I'm distracting myself. OH YES, I'm distracting myself.

When I had my first short story published four years ago, I thought, This is it.  This is all I have ever dreamed of.  I can now die happy as a writer.  Then I had my second story publi

For David Foster Wallace

Wait

I'm thinking today about patience, and projects, and pushing, and passion, and the relationship between all these Ps.

One of the problems with blogging is that it's so easy to degenerate into a stream-of-consciousness writing style, the antithesis of good writing.

Today is a Red-Letter Day!