So I’m in the worst time of all: the time between when I have finished one project but not yet begun the next.  Oh, I have vague ideas, but they’re a jumble–just this inchoate mass that leaves me feeling all prickly inside and antsy and dissatisfied.  Honestly, I just hate my brain right now. Part [...]

Dean Wesley Smith has a great article up on one of the traps a bunch of writers fall into: believing that, once they’d made a couple of sales, they know everything they need to know to keep selling. Uh . . . no. For me to keep my medical licenses current, I have to rack [...]

There’s this great line Faye Dunaway has in Bonnie and Clyde: “We rob banks.”  (If you’ve never seen the movie, do.  In another incarnation, I studied and wrote articles about film and I still think it must be glorious to be paid for watching and then reviewing movies.   I never made it to the level [...]

Stephen King does a fabulous review of a new Raymond Carver biography and volume of Carver’s stores, restored after being eviscerated by Esquire‘s then-editor, Gordon Lish. (This isn’t the first time this issue has come up either; the NYT has made this charge before and the restored, Lish-less stories are VERY different.) Whatever the truth, [...]

Coming up with a title for this post was . . . well, hard and that’s probably a tribute to the fact that I’m in the HARD part of my latest book–which translates to the initial glow has faded, that first burst of enthusiasm and OH WOW is gone, and now we get down to [...]