On December 9, 2017, I uploaded The Perfect Generation to Kindle Scout, basically a popularity contest to try and get a legit publishing contract through Amazon's Kindle Press publishing arm. I read enough blog posts from authors who had gone through…
To this point, how writing has worked for me is that I get an idea stuck in my head. Like songs, they're sticky. Many times, they start very insistently and eventually ebb away, apparently to find someone else's brain to…
Stop me if you've heard this one: A guy walks into his job and spends half the day reading or replying to the all-comers to-do list that is email, a quarter of the day in meetings, and the other quarter…
I've written a lot of stuff. I've been a pantser (seat of my pants, vs. a plotter) to this point, though, so most of it is junk. This is where I'm at: 8 screenplays, multiple complete revisions each (unproduced, natch)…
... there was a guy named Cody. He grew up in the Midwest, did very well in school, went to college, got a degree in marketing, and went to work. He was building a decent little nest egg, had good…