Reading Time: 2 minutes It took me nearly half a century to write and rewrite the play, which became a book about writing a play and how perfectionism and procrastination are this writer’s worst enemy. Continue reading Year in Review 2022 (Week 52)
Reading Time: 3 minutes Why, then, do I intend to commit my views of the coming year to paper? Mostly so I can come back a year or more from now to see how I behaved myself. Continue reading 1979 Prospective
Reading Time: 2 minutes Many of my year-end journal entries and most of my year-end columns for the newspaper started with a “good riddance” lede. This was the first. Continue reading Year in Review, 1978
Reading Time: 2 minutes One of the valuable things we do as writers is to pull together the little threads that are part of our story as individuals and as a society. Continue reading Week in Review: Week 51
Reading Time: < 1 minutes I started my journal entry for Christmas Eve, 1978, with a trite-but-true riff on Clement Clarke Moore’s “A Visit from St. Nicholas.” Doesn’t everyone? Continue reading The night before Christmas, 1978
Reading Time: 2 minutes In this Christmas season, think of Ebenezer Scrooge or George Bailey, when the character sees the light and makes a radical change. Continue reading Review: “The Self Delusion” by Gregory Berns
Reading Time: < 1 minutes On this shortest day, a short excerpt from my 1978 journal reflects a young writer who sees a character’s tragic flaw as his own. Continue reading When life reflects art, 1978
Reading Time: 2 minutes Another journal entry from 1978: Will I ever finish a piece if my inner critic doesn’t like it? Continue reading Confronting the inner critic, 1978
Reading Time: 2 minutes A mountain emitting terrible noises was said to be in labor. But, as people watched to see what would happen, all they saw come out of it was a mouse. — Fables of Aesop Continue reading Week in Review: Week 50
Reading Time: 2 minutes Suppose you were a synthetic rubber specialist who is developing a lightweight, permeable, waterproof fabric. Wouldn’t 1939 be a good time to get as far from Germany as possible? Continue reading The Bubble Wrap back story (Readers Digest Condensed Version)
