I have 2 books scattered unevenly throughout 5 books. I’m fresh off a near-6 year tech Odyssey and back on the shores of Ithaca. I still see the writing rust speckled about the floor when I get up from the table after another session. With all that little authority, the first piece of advice I […]
How to write a book
A Through Line (or Spine) in a story. How I heard it.
Over the weekend I drafted out the top-level chapter names for the fifth-first book, again. I read them off to Katie and explained a little bit about each. She lit up like a Christmas tree and exclaimed: “Yeah. I really like how the through lines work.” I nodded, agreed, thanked her, and replied with an […]
Plans for Minnesota – Awaiting My Cousin’s Unbiased Book Edits
Awaiting book edits is equal parts agony, anxiety, and anticipation. Back in the 1990s, I got my cousin to listen to an abstract, coffee house hip-hip band from New York named Soul Coughing. Back in the early 2000s, my cousin came to visit me when I lived in a place my world dubbed The Corn […]