Writing is a lonely business. You sit with your computer (and your email, facebook, twitter, myspace, cell phone . . . so it’s less lonely than if you just had your typewriter, but go with me on this). Okay, so you sit with your computer and your coffee/tea and you write. And you get lonely. […]

This past weekend, I indulged in a writing retreat with two fellow writers.  We gathered at one writer’s home on Friday afternoon, and we left on Sunday afternoon.  While there, we talked about writing, ate, talked about the world, ate, talked about reading, ate, and worked on our various  works-in-progress.  (One of us was re-reading […]

It’s been nearly three weeks since New Year’s, and so I’ve pretty much forgotten most of the resolutions I made for 2010. I really meant to start eating better, but with the house still full of holiday goodies — the fudge and cookies and that wonderful peppermint ice cream that the stores only sell […]

A novel idea attacked me yesterday and ate my brain. It’s an idea that I love, and yet it’s insane. Really. It’s one of those things where disparate things crash together and seem like they shouldn’t exist in the same universe, much less the same world, city or neighborhood. Think about something like Lost meets […]