Tuesday 8/30/22 I am a little drained, but strong and getting stronger. Over the weekend I wrote the entire outline for the book on The...

Tuesday 8/30/22 This audio is up in the On air section of the website, where one can listen to hundreds of hours of interviews I've given...

Monday 8/29/22 By which I mean, with the above, how good writing works. Often what writers do is they put something on the page without...

Monday 8/29/22 The other day in an entry in these pages we talked about J.W. McCormack, who is the fiction editor of The Baffler, and a...

Monday 8/29/22 Fear is a highly personalized emotion, which is a key component of what makes fear fear. A person may be ravaged by fear,...

Sunday 8/28/22 Remy, I was thinking about you last night after talking to your daddy on the phone. I think I probably know your dad as...

Saturday 8/27/22 So we met at the only Joe’s American Bar and Grill in the region. I think there’s a rule: one such establishment per...

Saturday 8/27/22 Outline for book on The Curse of the Cat People I. Shocks Not Shocks The Curse of the Cat People is a unique horror...

Saturday 8/27/22 * Worked on the Elvis piece some more. It's 3400 words now. Worked on a short story called "Same As I Don't." Here is...

Thursday 8/25/22 So Jelly "I'm so jelly," one girl said to another girl, by which she meant jealous, and not jelly jelly, like the peanut...

Thursday 8/25/22 Rarely, if ever, has a musician in the idioms of rock, jazz, country, soul, or the blues determined that the making of a...

Thursday 8/25/22 It would not surprise me one morning to awake and learn of a murder-suicide event involving Dave Portnoy and a woman or...

Wednesday 8/24/22 I saw something on Facebook two or three weeks ago, that I thought I'd mention on here, because it was instructive or...

Tuesday 8/23/22 My focus right now is such that a laser bearing witness to it would be intimidated. I cleaned up a chapter I wrote...

Tuesday 8/23/22 Have you ever seen one of those to catch a predator type of shows? That might even be the name of one of them. They're...

Tuesday 8/23/22 Chapter I: Shocks Not Shocks If we love horror films in large part because of their ability to shock us, then it would...

Tuesday 8/23/22 Don't get angry because it's true; address it because it's wrong.

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Monday 8/22/22 These are punishing days, and would be apart from the hell and torture component. Just to write this much, create this...

Monday 8/22/22 Martella loved to sled, though she did so much less often than when her mother was alive and they both lived in the cabin...

Sunday 8/21/22 I tidied up the op-ed I wrote yesterday on Charles Schulz and Peanuts for Schulz's centennial in late November. I made...

Sunday 8/21/22 I am going to spell out a plan of intention here. There are many reasons this journal exists. Why I do it. I'm not going...

Sunday 8/21/22 It must have been the new man, Nedlin, who hadn’t secured the horses properly. The last in the line had gotten loose...

Sunday 8/21/22 Dipped into the mailbox here, which I don't regularly do, though I get around to it. This came in at 4:48 AM. I'm curious,...