I’ve got a birthday coming up next week; and it’s inevitable for me to take measure of my accomplishments and my progress on the path I’ve chosen. If the feeling of the last 48 hours holds, I’ll be in rare
I’m making the one damn thing for after the other
I’m at one of my network of writing-conducive cafes; I’ve just polished off a flat brown and five pages of a new Earbud Theater script I’m calling Monday for the Sweepers. My previous script Scary Ride is in the final
One Small Step and Another
It’s funny because I didn’t plan it this way at all – today I placed my first order for the proof copy of the Stages of Sleep paperback; while at the same time I finished the final assembly and started
My $1,156 bargain book
Part of the lure of independent publishing is that it feels like a free lottery ticket. Punch a few buttons, publish a book, become the next J.K. Rowling! It’s built on one of the most popular and seductive of our
Current stage: Awake…I think…
I now have an official “public” Facebook page. One of my Marketing Committee colleagues at Shakespeare Orange County finally got me past this particular edition of that queasy thing that happens in my throat when it comes to self-marketing. He
Make a noise
One of the unspoken commandments of Earbud Theater is that we should try to do something with every episode that we’ve never done before. I’m cutting together a new piece now, called Bubbles, and while it’s going to be far
Rolling multiple rocks, because Sisyphus was a punk
I just turned in my cut of Habitat. The producer may have a tweak or two, but I think the show is basically in broadcast form. Which means we just need to get our finished artwork in, and then count
Four-Star Foreword
I think the saying is that the sweetest sound anyone can hear is the sound of their own name. Not sure who said that – probably Dale Carnegie. I’ll refine the idea to say that the sweetest sound a writer
Stages of Sleep
When you’re a writer in this world of empowered direct publishing, sometimes “finishing” a work is really just a matter of saying “I’m not rewriting this damn thing any longer”. That’s a power you need to use responsibly, since even