The Life and Times of a Navy Husband

I’ve been complaining a lot about feeling creatively ‘wiped out’—that is, having no energy or ambition to make something. It felt like everything was going to the son, the wife, the house, the garden. I know: completely self-indulgent. It was a feeling, and feelings have a reality-distorting gravitational pull that can be difficult to escape, …

This is a draft of the first chapter of my novel Lithium which I am currently in the process of rewriting. This is part of my ongoing experiment with deadlines. You can read more of my fiction here. “Have you decided what you’re going to do?” “No. I don’t know.” We were sitting on a …

OK, so it’s a day late, but, to be fair, it was done last night. I just had to format it for the site. Hope you enjoy. The Zine Draft 4 April 30, 2009 Paul and Ben first met in Rebecca Thatcher’s fourth period English class at Thompson Middle. We think. That’s the consensus in …

Last month I decided to try an experiment to get myself writing fiction, again. It was two experiments, really, two hypotheses: 1. Since blogging seems to come easier than longer-form pieces for print, would it be easier to get through some of my writing barriers if I composed “in the cloud,” i.e. using Google Documents …