I recently took a writing class with David Corbett, a New York Times notable author who's written numerous novels, short stories and poems, and recently published a book called ‘The Art of Character’. (As an aside, this book is excellent. If you’re a writer, and you’re serious about the craft, you …
Essays & Non-fiction
A Writer’s Shame
La Central bookshop in the Raval district of Barcelona is fast becoming my hang-out spot of choice. Not only is it air-conditioned and quiet—making it a safe-haven from the brocationers, flashpackers and multigens that descend upon this city in droves during these unbearably sticky summer months—it …
Going Pro
So, I've recently taken the plunge and gone pro with this whole editing malarkey. When I say gone pro, I mean I tell people that’s what I do now. As in: that’s my job. As in: that’s how I earn a living. Pay the rent. Feed my addictions. It makes me feel good, telling people that, because I …
When You’re a Writer…
When you're a writer, sometimes the only thing to do is write. A screamingly obvious statement, certainly, but it’s all too easy to put off writing – more so than ever now that we all have instantaneous access to the Internet, and those twin paradigms for perpetual procrastination. I’m not here …