Monthly Archives: January 2006

Did I accomplish much this weekend? I’m not sure. I did finish one thing that I’d been working on for several days—a new chapter of Missing Persons. It was one of those situations where I’d get to a certain point, … Continue reading →

Rewriting can be scary, like deliberately walking off a tight rope. The rope is the strand of plot that has existed in my mind for nearly two years. I could sit down and tell you the story, and this is … Continue reading →

I finally overcame a huge bout of inertia and picked up the third draft manuscript of Missing Persons with an eye toward creating a fourth draft. I’d been frittering away my time doing other things over the past week or … Continue reading →

“Feast of Stephen” is in the hands of the anthology editor, so now I can move on to other things. I have one book review to finalize and then I’m back at Missing Persons. You know how we writers tend … Continue reading →

My first reader came back with only two little recommendations for “The Feast of Stephen,” so I thought I was pretty much ready to send it in. I reread the story in hardcopy with my omnipresent pen and started making … Continue reading →

Some weekends are more productive than others, and sometimes I end up being more productive than it seems like I was at the time. This was one of those weekends when I felt like I wasn’t accomplishing much with respect … Continue reading →

Some stories emerge full flung like Athena from the head of Zeus. Some are born more traditionally—a little bit of labor, but mostly smooth going. And others require you to go in with a set of forceps and wrest the … Continue reading →

…or perhaps like one of those slide games where you rearrange the pieces to form a picture. I’ve been ruminating for a while over a story for a themed anthology. I had the set piece already in mind—my main reason … Continue reading →

So, I’m still reading Don Quixote, getting well along in the first volume. It seems that Senor Cervantes was badly in need of an editor. In the first edition of the book, Sancho Panza’s donkey is stolen, though that scene … Continue reading →

The first week of 2006 is history. Where does the time go? A Maine newspaper wrote a feature on my buddy Glenn Chadbourne, the artist who illustrated The Road to the Dark Tower and The Illustrated Stephen King Trivia Book. … Continue reading →