The Whale Belly

Today I woke up a little late. I had a headache, and I felt dazed. Usually I like to go to the computer first thing and put in about thirty minutes of meditative writing, but the boy would wake up soon and I would have to be around to make sure he got ready for…

I almost abandoned another story because I reached a point where I didn’t know what happened next. Luckily, after sea of false starts with past projects, guilt got the better of me and I wrote blindly into a scene that left me more or less satisfied. There were two lessons here. The first was that…

How do authors commit to long pieces of writing? I struggle with this. I’m constantly beginning projects only to lose the romance in the early stages and begin looking elsewhere for a newer, sexier idea. Part of this is personality. I’ve shied away from long term relationships, whether romantic, platonic, or professional. I’ve pursued several…