Bleeping bleep
I watched an interview with the late Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond, on one of the remastered Blu-Ray discs from the new box set. The interviewer asked him about […]
Before they were authors…
As I work on my book sometimes I wonder why I think I can do this, even though I’m so far through it that it’s like swimming across a river […]
Writer or Author
I’ve been writing off and on since college. Mostly off, but it has always been something I enjoyed getting back to. Now I’m 44 and am nearing completion of my […]
Steinbeck on Writing
I found this article written by John Steinbeck in 1963: Dear Writer: Although it must be a thousand years ago that I sat in a class in story writing at […]
Sitting on Cannery Row
In 1998 I lived in Northern California, right in the belly of Silicon Valley. I worked at a typical start up, based in an old house without heat or air […]
The first time is the hardest
This is the hardest post. Over the years I’ve started and ended several blogs. They begin with optimistic glory, thoughts running around my head that for some reason I feel […]