Category Archives: The Writing Process

Tuning the Instrument, Or Writing as Yourself

You would think from the title that this would be some sort of update about my WRITER’S BRAIN and how I am caring for and feeding it lately, now that I am publishing as a freelancer and writing book proposals and getting myself out there in a way that I think is successful. It is?

The Book Proposal Hit List (Updated)

Update 4.9.08: I added some pieces and removed some others for the second requested proposal. Added: The Dick You Can’t Take Back The Naming of Things Mine to Give Removed: New York City ***** Last week I wrote a query letter to a literary agent. The reply was positive – short non-fiction collections are a

What If

It is roundly accepted that the best fiction is a product of a “what if” scenario. What if George Washington was an alien, what if Bruce Willis didn’t know he was dead, etc. There have been several things in the last few days which I have observed and then said to myself, “I should write