I recently visited a local used book store I’d been meaning to check out and was shocked at what I saw. Stacks of books ALL OVER THE FLOOR. Boxes here, bags there. I literally had to step around a stack of books almost blocking the front entrance. There were stacks on the floor around the […]
Kenji Novel – The Struggle with POV
After reading several books, blogs, and online articles on the elusively challenging art that is called writing, I felt prepared enough to actually start writing my first novel. The ideas that have been bouncing around in my head for three years took on a substantive form – characters, dialogue, even a rough overview of the […]
We Tell Stories – narrative experiment from Six to Start
Rather than simply port stories to the Internet, Six To Start recently produced six original stories for Penguin Books that incorporated the Internet as an integral, required piece of the process. The project is called We Tell Stories. Each story is very different and utilizes different technical platforms/tools (e.g., Google Maps, twitter, blogs, etc.). Very […]
Do Something to Talk About
There’s an old adage about writing, which goes something like, “If you want to be a writer, then write.” Like a lot of things in life, there’s the talking about and then there’s the doing, and the gulf between the two keeps most of us in the talking camp. I finally, after three years and […]
Learning to write
I have, for over three years, harbored an idea for a novel or collection of short stories that would allow me to explore (and re-visit) the roots of my first two degrees and combine that with a life-long fascination I have had with Japan. Having ignored both my B.A. in English (emphasis in creative writing) […]