Watched an interview with David Foster Wallace, in which he went to great lengths to impress on the interviewer, I’m Smart! I’m Smarter ...

For me, there is one benefit to all this staying at home: I am getting a lot of work done. I have gone back to writing my first draft longhand, on l...

If you told me about a mystery story containing a supernatural element which is essentially syncretistic, and in which the main character is po...

I love movies. Some of them, anyhow. My wife and I have an ongoing joke: she likes movies with lots of dialogue and I like movies with gratuitous nu...

I have been having trouble writing much of anything lately. Actually, this post will be the first time I’ve written anything more complex than...

Being a writer is a strange affliction, sometimes. At the moment, it’s like having a girlfriend who never remembers my name. The reason for th...

  For me, there really is no such thing as a first draft any more. I think the concept of a first draft is a leftover from the bad old days, wh...

  In 1956, French film director Henri-Georges Clouzot (no relation) filmed Picasso at work. The resulting documentary is called ‘The Myst...

Have you buried your dreams or did you drown your one life in a dark and bitter sea Did your friends already dig you down into the rotting dark, a m...