While eating breakfast before work yesterday, I watched this video. About five minutes in, there’s an interview with Peter Hook about recording Joy Division’s “Love Will Tear Us Apart.” While mostly focused on the song, Hook talks about the times and some bits about the process behind the recording. He focuses a bit about his […]
Finding My Way
I finished, recorded, and edited a new Not About Lumberjacks story these past two weeks. (I’ve been doing a weekly writing update on the Not About Lumberjacks blog, by the way; in fact, there’s a new entry there right now…) The story I planned to release in October needs more time. So…I had a vague […]
Writing 1,000 Words a Day
I am that writer who mostly doesn’t track things. Beginning last August, I did begin marking days I wrote (or didn’t write) on a calendar, but there is no rule for what constitutes a good day of writing, other than if I felt I did enough to earn a green X on the calendar instead […]
Finding Your Way In The Dark
I’ve met many people who talk about the stories they want to write, but never actually write them. And why not? Once you’ve regaled a group with your brilliant ideas fleshed out enough to something with a vague structure, the satisfaction of telling a story is there. (Why spend years writing a novel when you […]
A Line at a Time
When I lived near Chicago, I was tracked as a vocational student. That meant the school I attended looked at my grades [but never at me, asking what I wanted to do later in life] and determined: This kid is not going to remove tumors from brains, defend someone during the ‘Case of the Century,’ […]