Category: Writing
Boats, Books, and the Pursuit of Excellence
How can so many people—most people—be content to make the same mistakes over and over again, rather than striving to be better? Read More …
The Psyche of Self-Employment
What to do when you get to the next line, where it says “Employer.” Read More …
Writing for Free: Why I Blog
Work in Progress not progressing? Must be time to write a blog post. Blog posts, after all, are just short snippets of thought. They don’t require character arcs, or plot development, or outlines. They don’t require much at all, really, Read More …
Why it Took 18 Years to Write Game of Sails
A book from my past took over my present, and now it will live on in the future. Read More …
Ideas are the Easy Part: Teaching with Cape Cod Surprise
Yesterday I visited the Bourne Middle School, writing Oliver-based stories in cooperation with about 230 fifth graders—who fortunately were divided across five forty minute periods, and well-supervised by their teachers. First the kids chose a starting and ending point for Read More …
The Shape of a Story
Several years ago, I wrote a story called “Reading the Shape of the Wind.” In it I described the different ways breeze fills across the water, as well as the best strategies for winning races in each condition. Recently, it’s Read More …
Presenting Game of Sails on Paper
You heard it here first: Game of Sails: an Olympic Love Story will soon be available in paperback. Read More …
Story Parenting
Am I Raising my Characters, or are they Raising ME? Read More …
Where Work Meets Play: Miami, Florida
Greetings from sunny south Florida, where I’ve escaped for a week of warm weather and a spot of fun that might (or might not) be eventually justified as research. Read More …
Writing: It’s Not a Competition
Back in 2006, I attended the New York Writer’s Group Pitch and Shop. Read More …
