Tag: Fiction

How To Break Through Writer’s Block

July 22, 2013
Writing

Why Me? What qualifies me, a not-yet-published novelist and (frequently negligent) blogger, to give you advice on how to break through writer’s block? I’m no newbie to creativity. I earned a BFA in Film Production and won the Chapman University Visual Storytelling Award. I’ve written over a hundred...

Improbable Radness and Existential Swagger in The Fault In Our Stars

February 4, 2013
Fiction, Writing

No spoilers! [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/77558079″ params=”” width=” 100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] The Fault In Our Stars is about love and death and sex and literature and cancer and Amsterdam and irony and...

Size Matters

November 3, 2012
Fiction, News, Personal, Writing

This week, Writers Digest held a Super Short Story Contest. The rules: write a complete story in 140 characters or less – the length of a tweet. Today, Online Editor Brian Klems announced the winner. It wasn’t me – but my story was reposted (dare I say published?) in the “sampling of some...

The Ceiling is the Floor

October 31, 2012
Personal

“Ah, music… A magic far beyond all we do here!” – Albus Dumbledore “Music is the strongest form of magic.” – Marilyn Manson The Magician’s Assistant I was raised by a banker and a magician. I’m completely serious. I was the comic foil in Dad’s...