Entries Regarding: Writing

The Obligatory White Male Author’s Fiction Manifesto: Stories (Part 2)

Mar 8th, 2012

The Obligatory White Male Author’s Fiction Manifesto: Stories (Part 2)

Part 2, and the bossier half, of this two-part posting!

The Obligatory White Male Author’s Fiction Manifesto: Stories (Part 1)

Mar 7th, 2012

The Obligatory White Male Author’s Fiction Manifesto: Stories (Part 1)

Because I am an author and am also white and a man, it's inevitable that I would write some kind of manifesto of fiction. I've tried to avoid it -- I even hacked my own hands off to keep it from being written -- but such a thing is as inevitable as the Cylon ascendency, so here it is. (Part one of two!)

What’s Happened, What’s Next: SOME ANNOUNCEMENTS

Feb 17th, 2012

What’s Happened, What’s Next: SOME ANNOUNCEMENTS

Want to see an actual rejection note from the New Yorker? Want to learn the future of fiction?

Don’t Let This Be You

Jan 14th, 2011

Don’t Let This Be You

Note: I just posted this in a fiction course I'm teaching for UCLA Extension. I hate (really, I do!) to be self-serving, but I do think it might also be to some value to someone, somewhere, who's not in my class. God knows I've said similar words to my kids, and god knows I've had them said to me many times over the years. Enjoy...