Month: January 2016

  • Fear

    I was listening to NPR this morning and one of their correspondents went out into the street to ask passersby about their fears. Not “normal” fears, mind you, but deep seated ones that dominate their mind. The answers were as varied as you might expect – jobs/joblessness, Donald Trump, crime,…

  • Adventures in Editing

    Back in November, I took part in National Novel Writing Month. Between November 4th and the end of the month, I managed to put a 66k word mystery novel to paper. The title of the work eventually became An Unassuming Fall and after two edits, sat at a final word…

  • The New Year (in writing)

    I sat down with a plan to write something profound about 2016, but so much has already happened in the past few days that I’m already feeling overwhelmed. On the first, I moved to a new place with my wife and pets. It’s twice as big as the one we…