The Challenge
As I said, I wanted to have seven more shows in the can this weekend. As I also said I took yesterday off. Ideally, I'd like to finish seven partial scripts today (some of those are extremely partial),...
View ArticleMy Brand Of Failure
Happy Mother's Day to all you mommas! Here's a thing I wrote about my mother on Mother's Day 2009 in a nearly unreadable litany of terse sentences....
View ArticleThe Lessons Of Compressed Mango
Here's the lesson that MuchoMangoMayo tries to teach me every single year: Get the goddamned shows done before May!Not only have I refused to learn that lesson, but this year I was less prepared than...
View ArticleBrief Hospital Visit
I was feeling super funky a few hours ago and asked The Boy to call 911. Turns out my blood pressure was higher than I've ever seen it. The paramedics brought it down quickly, but I'm stuck in the...
View ArticleSome Good Health News
As you may have read in the post before this one, I had a little health scare over the weekend. A big scare to me, actually, as I thought I might be having a heart attack. But between the tests at the...
View Article150
Just wrote and sent out a piece of flash fiction which is officially number 150 of The One-Thousand!
View ArticleThe Story Behind Three Kingdoms
Happy Independence Day, Americans!My story, Three Kingdoms was just published at Kaleidotrope. It's number 95 of The One-Thousand. Go read it here:...
View ArticleThe Idea Generator #1 - The Junk Dealer
Hey! My daughter, Ivory, and I are starting a new video series called The Idea Generator. It's all about how to come up with new ideas. Take a look at episode number one - The Junk Dealer!
View ArticleOglaf
If you like wonderfully surreal, pornographic, medieval-fantasy-trope-filled webcomics, why aren't you reading Oglaf already? As a sample, I offer this, something that fans of Beware the Hairy Mango...
View ArticleMan-Super
The Boy just learned about Batman villain, Man-Bat. He thought it was a stupid idea and suggested a Superman villain called Man-Super. I said maybe he's a super-powered janitor. The Boy...
View ArticleFiction Crawler 15
I did my first Fiction Crawler in ten months on last week's StarShipSofa. Go listen and then stick around for some great fiction by Rachel Swirsky and Suzanne Palmer! The Palmer story is narrated by...
View ArticleSleep Tight!
I was tired and just packing up for bed a few minutes ago when I discovered a monstrous spider in my room, two feet from my pillow. My mattress is on the floor because I dumped what passed for a bed...
View ArticleMy Song Of Ice And Fire Fan Fiction
Chapter 1HodorHodor. Hodor, Hodor, Hodor. Hodor."Hodor?""Hodor, Hodor!"Hodor. Hodor. Hodor. Hodor. Hodor. Hodor. Hodor, Hodor. Hodor. Hodor. Hodor.Hodor. Hodor. Hodor, Hodor, Hodor, Hodor.Hodor.(I'm...
View ArticleLove Or Fear
I get lost at metaphorical sea on a regular basis. I just woke up after much too little sleep over the last twenty-eight hours and I was pep-talking myself with the thought that you can either choose...
View ArticleThe Weekend Novella
This was the plan: To write an 18,000 word first draft this weekend and write the second draft next weekend for a market that's closing to unagented submissions next Sunday night.I've never written...
View ArticleThe 3 Most Important Things in Life
From the beginning, I intended a secondary purpose for this blog, as I didn't expect to have posts about my story progress for you all the time. I wanted a place to turn you guys on to stuff that I...
View ArticleMagic
I've loved this song for years, bought the single and B.o.B.'s album. I've loved Rivers Cuomo's music for decades. That's not why I'm posting this video here. I'm posting it because I just saw the...
View ArticleWe Are The Cloud
Great story up at Lightspeed right now, We Are the Cloud by Sam J. Miller. You can read it here: http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/cloud/ Many times, I don't go for stories that seem at first...
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