Category: Writing Life

  • Reading at Speakeasy

    Last Thursday evening here in Danville, Indiana, Speakeasy Books and More held their inaugural reading, and I was privileged to be one the four authors…

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  • Speakeasy

    A writer has several needs that must be met in order to practice his craft. He needs a physical place that is solely his where…

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  • That Counter-Cultural Somersault

    I've concluded that it's not the writing that’s difficult. What is difficult is making and maintaining space in our lives in which creativity can occur.…

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  • Crush or Commitment?

    I have a long-form fiction project I’d like to discuss for a moment. Let’s call it Fabula. (Fabula is Latin for story.) When I’m working…

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  • Three Portraits of a Reader

    He reads Robert Alter’s translation, The Five Books of Moses. Seeking to understand the literary qualities of the Hebrew––a language he studied for three weeks…

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