Tuesday 2/7/23 Check out these first two paragraphs of a story. Fair warning: You're going to want to skim and skip through parts of the...

Sunday 2/5/23 I don't know why I've written over 400 stories in less than five years. Everything feels pointless. There's nothing I can...

Saturday 2/4/23 Still, I couldn’t find anything that had happened to anyone else like what had happened to me on a rocky coast thirty...

Saturday 2/4/23 Want to know something amazing? Texas Review Press isn't a good press, right? It's at Sam Houston State University. I...

Saturday 2/4/23 This is entry number 2000 in this journal. Story excerpt. *** He was the most anticipated speaker in the history of...

Friday 2/3/23 I'm back in toothy business--got my tooth fixed. It was high--had to be lowered. Even bite, baby. I didn't run stairs. I...

Friday 2/3/23 I sent Musings with Franklin to someone this morning. That is the novel told entirely in conversation between Writer,...

Thursday 2/2/23 I had tried to get this done by Sunday, but it didn't happen. I've been working kind of hard, one might say. Earlier I...

Thursday 2/2/23 I thought I’d start this summary with what I envision as a prospective catalogue description for this proposed book and...

Thursday 2/2/23 Email that came in from Tim Schaffner. I know all the moves that a guy like this is going to try to do. It won't work....

Thursday 2/2/23 We can do this with nearly everyone, and I will, if I have to, until this system changes. You probably are familiar with...

Thursday 2/2/23 Closest you’ve ever felt to another person? The time I was scared of the water and my dad jumped off the diving board...

Wednesday 2/1/23 This is a letter from John Atkinson, who was the editor for Scrooge. Seems fine at first, right? Friendly. Etc. Dear...

Wednesday 2/1/23 This was a letter I sent to Michael Tan, an associate editor at Rowman and Littlefield, at the end of last year. Dear...

Wednesday 2/1/23 There's a very small press called Schaffner Press that's based in Tucson, Arizona, run by a guy named Tim Schaffner. As...

Saturday 1/28/23 I finished a story called "To the Wrist." I'm taking longer than ever to officially say a story is done now. I'm going...

Saturday 1/28/23 Yesterday I had to ask my mother to not read my work. To not listen to me on the radio. For us to not talk about my work...

Saturday 1/28/23 Perry didn’t seem old enough to Martin to have a grandkid, but he did. Martin was envious of the boy, but the feeling...

Thursday 1/26/23 Things are about to get very serious on here, to put it mildly, so let's get some frivolities out of the way. Bill...

Thursday 1/26/23 I feel like this photo says a lot. Typifies a lot. Throughout the day, every day, I see things like this. Not like this...

Wednesday 1/25/23 On Saturday, I did what I do every Saturday and every day. I got up hours before dawn, and immediately began work....

Tuesday 1/24/23 Scott Rolen was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame tonight, as he should have been. People then whine and reveal their...

Tuesday 1/24/23 C: I have an idea for another book. C: Stories like "My Nickel," The Fallen Leaf," "The Day I Met God," "There Is No...

Thursday 1/19/23 Martin and Perry were deer hunting. They heard shots that were within a quarter mile. “You think you have the woods to...