reading

  • Books I’ve Read in 2024: A Review

    At the end of 2023, I decided that I was going to make a commitment to reading, primarily for me and to help me as a writer. I wanted to read and study more of the books that fall into genres that shaped me as a writer – most particularly Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, and Suspense-Thriller.…

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  • I just finished reading The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin, and here’s the review that I posted on Goodreads: “This is not a book to read quickly to complete some reading goal. Rick Rubin’s words need to be absorbed, considered, as if you were reading Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching. To…

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  • The Story Had To Be Told: On Writing The Christmas Rose

    Yesterday, I published my short story, The Christmas Rose. It’s been less than 24 hours since I shared it with my readers, and I wanted to answer a few questions about why I wrote it. Q: The story is pretty long — almost 8,000 words. Most people aren’t reading pieces that take more than a…

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  • Neil Gaiman and Making Good Art

    Mark, a friend and fellow artist and educator, walked in to my classroom yesterday, just before noon. I was talking with Andrew, an alum from ’05 who is a fascinating individual and filmmaker. “Make good art,” is what Mark said. He stood there, smiled, and said it again. “Make good art.” Andrew and I looked…

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