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Gone Cruising: Help Needed Upon My Return.
Gone cruising! Well, not yet, of course, but this post will be up for a couple of weeks, so I wil live in the future that’s almost here. Yes, I’m cruising the east Caribbean, starting Sunday the 17th, after two nights in Miami. I expect it to be a hoot. A friend of mine is a performer […]
TBD: The First Video
March 5, 2013
Not everyone likes to read all the time, so I started making quick short videos of me reading my stories. It’s an easy way to serve a different audience and it might hook me some new readers. After I wrote, “Never Fall In Love With A Writer“, it occurred to me that a casual viewer might be confused […]
TBD: Enjoying The Spiral Dive
February 27, 2013
If you haven’t had a chance to check in on the progress of TBD lately, I’m happy to report it’s coming along nicely. I got myself into a bit of a spiral dive for a couple of days, but I managed to pull myself out of it. It was all very exciting! What do I […]
Time Is A Jet Plane: Easily Lost On A Fixed Schedule
February 6, 2013
Ok. I admit it. I don’t have the time and energy to do everything I want to do. Untile further notice, I’m putting my regular short story writing on hiatus, until I finish TBD. For me, this is kind of a new experience. I’ve always felt that I could more or less accomplish all that […]
Breaking News: I Now Make My Bed.
January 29, 2013
At different points in my life, I’ve been forced to make my bed. You will note, only compulsion could make me undertake a task that I thought totally irrational. Why make now what will only be unmade later? Much to my shock, recently, I’ve come to understand the value of a made bed. The reversal […]
TBD: An Emergent Property
January 16, 2013
For the record, TBD isn’t the first time I agreed to write a play from scratch for the Ottawa Fringe. Back in February 2007, having just returned from Ottawa, Dave Dawson asked me to write something for his upcoming Fringe tour, which started in Ottawa. At the time, I had pretty much sworn off writing […]
Why I Enjoy Writing: Adventures In Discovery.
January 8, 2013
While I was writing the second episode of Oddawa, on Sunday, I was reminded why I enjoy writing: each new project is an adventure in discovery. When I started out writing, on Sunday, I knew only that the episode was going to open with the main character getting shot (this is important for a reveal still […]
2013: I Like the Cut of Your Jib, Sir.
January 1, 2013
2013, there’s something odd about you. Awkward even. 2010 got all the typical attention you’d expect, even though so many pointed out that 2011 is the actual start of the second decade of the 21st century. 2011, being 2011, did not shy away from soaking in as much of the limelight as it could. 2012 […]
One Meaning of Christmas: If Redemption is the Hope, Why Are We So Conservative?
December 25, 2012
I was thinking about Christmas, yesterday. It lead to a question I can’t easily answer. Maybe you can help. For me, the core meaning of Christmas is redemption. From a religious perspective, it’s the ritual that marks the beginning of humanity’s redemption. On this day, light was sent into a world of darkness to save […]
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