Tag: writing

  • Saw you with a ticketstub in your hand

    I’m so out of it. After returning from a week and a half in New York I’m still reading The Gawker but without that same sense of immediacy (not that it matters where you are when you read about New York, and not that that prevents me from reading the Times, the Nation, the New…

  • Stormy Monday

    I stood out back in the shed listening to the wind pick up and drive the light rain against the walls and fences and trellises. Rose bushes lash the windows even now. The cat and I agreed to go back inside. Working on a longish blog entry about losing my wallet in New York and…

  • Drowning Mona

    About 5 minutes before the end of this movie, Danny DeVito’s character says, “Know this….” A good example of lame Hollywood writing, a crutch-phrase I’ve never heard anyone use in real life.

  • All's well that ends well.

    Now it can be told: In some ways the most frustrating thing about the deal I signed in August to write a guide to blogging for professionals was that I wasn’t permitted to discuss the project here or in my blog-about-blogging. This was probably a good business decision for my publisher, as they did not…

  • "know this"

    Here’s one of my pet peeves about television writing. It seems that a writer wants to show a character getting serious and reinforcing some sombre truth, she has that character say to another “know this: I will never leave you alone” or “know this: I’ll be watching you” or something like that. This always grates…

  • Writer's log

    I feel that one of the things I’d like to be “logging” is the start, milestone-reaching, or conclusion of any of my writing projects. For example, today I completed the first draft of a review of The Deadhead’s Taping Addendum (PepperTonic, 2002) for the upcoming issue of Dead Letters Magazine, a scholarly (believe it or…