Last month, I started a new novel — the first time I set out to write something with the goal of going straight to an e-book. It’s a young adult (YA) story called Old Man, and it looks like it will probably be a novella. I say probably because I just might have the first […]
Writing Without Copyright
I have a friend who is rather fond of anarcho-capitalism. (I am not an anarcho-capitalist, but I’ll always listen to other people and their views.) A year ago, he challenged me to imagine a world without copyright. At first I thought, “I am all about copyright!” but the more I thought about it…I realized…I really […]
April Showers…
It’s with a heavy heart that I’m announcing this morning — after 327 entries, here — that I’ve come to an end with The Juggling Writer. I think I’m done with all writing, in fact. No more blog entries, articles, or novels. I’m just out of ideas, and I like working a day job so […]
The Company of Other Writers (Part 2)
I begin my day emailing a good friend who also writes. I chat with my friend Shawn at work. On walks at night, I chat with my wife. From the time I wake up, to the time I go to sleep, I have the opportunity to talk about writing. That Contact Helps When I’m more […]
The Crystal Ball (Is a Big Maybe)
During my 101-day social media break, I cut back on the number of blogs in my blog reader. But one category always seems to grow, despite my best intentions of taming it: my “Writing/Publishing” category. On any given day, all kinds of information comes through — much of it about the future of publishing. “E-books […]
The Company of Other Writers
Paul Lamb recently chatted on his blog about craving fellowship with like-minded writers. For years, more every other Wednesdays than not, I met with two friends for a writing group. We kept it small by design, and while it lasted, it was a very good thing. Since the group has dissolved, I find satisfaction in […]
In the Shadow of February
Sometime this morning, after a groundhog tells us all what to expect for the rest of the winter, an armadillo will leave its burrow down here and the message will be: “It’s Texas — who the hell knows what to expect!” It’s been in the mid 70s, lately. While winter in Texas is much different […]
300
In honor of the 300th Juggling Writer post: I’ve still never seen the movie, 300, but this makes me laugh every time I see it. Thanks for sticking around for the first 300; here’s to many more posts! * * * Monday, it’s back to a normal update: a review of Ann Patchett’s The Getaway […]
What Are Your Reading Habits?
Yesterday on my personal Facebook page, I posted the video above. A very good friend replied, saying that he’s all about e-books and audio books these days, because it allows him to not be weighed down by books and lets him read/listen on the go. The Power of E-Books I love physical books, but I’m […]
What’s in a Title?
It seems fitting to begin the new year by reading a new book: Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, a book about children born at the stroke of midnight in India in August of 1947 — at the very time of the country’s independence. Reading Rushdie’s introduction to the 25th anniversary of the book, he talks about […]
Best of The Juggling Writer – 2011
2011 wasn’t as busy a year for The Juggling Writer as last year. I’m sure, in part, that starting a new job was partially to blame for only 93 entries for the year — not the 150 entries of the year before. But it was still a good year. I wrote almost 95 entries this […]
What Do Italian Fig Cookies Have To Do With Writing?
This time of the year, Italians make fig cookies. Most fig cookies I’ve seen are cucidati, similar enough in shape to a Fig Newton, but with a totally different dough and frosted. [A quick aside: there’s really no comparison between Fig Newtons and Italian Fig cookies. While I’ve liked Fig Newtons since childhood, the filling […]
Paying the Tab
My father moved to Kansas from Chicago when I was 8 or 9. After my step mother divorced him (sometime in my early teens), he eventually settled in Independence, Missouri, where I visited during the summers. He tried taking time off work when I visited so we could go fishing, canoeing, and camping. Before one […]
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