"Qui plume a, guerre a." — Voltaire
Meet the reason I haven’t posted here in forever. If you’re a writer in or around Maryland, you’ll want to attend this conference in April. We’ve got some great speakers and sessions lined up. And if you’d like to help us promote the conference, feel free to share this link to the conference homepage. You […]
A Man Said to the Universe by Stephen Crane A man said to the universe: “Sir, I exist!” “However,” replied the universe, “The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation.”
Happy 50th anniversary, Doctor Who! Everyone’s got their favorites. Here are mine: Favorite Doctor: Peter Davison Favorite compan . . . wait, are you kidding? No Seriously? Seriously That’s like saying George Lazenby is your favorite Bond. Timothy Dalton, actually You’re weird. Tell me something I don’t know Anyway. Favorite story: The one where Tom […]
Tomorrow I’ll be staffing the Maryland Writers’ Association table at the Baltimore Writers Conference. And I just found out that Gary Lester, my old cohort from my days at Channel 37 will be able to make it too. That will be nice. We used to staff the MWA table at various conferences around the state, […]
Recently I was thinking back to a post and discussion about Microsoft Word over on Writer Underground. In particular, I was thinking about how writers define usability when it comes to software. And an idea wandered through my head: Usability is much ado about learning. As in, once you learn how to use Word, you […]
Something is amiss at 4 Times Square. At first, I wasn’t sure if I was really seeing a pattern. But now, a few issues into it, I’m pretty confident that I am. Quietly, without fanfare, the editors of The New Yorker have been making over the magazine — and the results are impressive. Issue by […]
Right now I’m reading Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple’s Success. It’s written by Ken Segall, a veteran creative director who has run many quality ad campaigns for some very big corporate names, so he knows whereof he speaks. But there was one thing he said that I found myself disagreeing with, and I […]
The Verizon/NSA/FISA issue has alarmed a lot of people to varying degrees, and for many different reasons. Now, my rational side agrees with writer David Simon, who expressed his thoughts on the matter here and here. TL;DR: “. . . the Verizon call data should be used as a viable data base for counter-terror investigations […]
I feel like I’m learning to walk again. My creative life was in stagnation for a long time before my sister’s death. Too tired from work, too burned out from the volunteering, and all the other excuses I kept telling myself until I believed them. But losing her really kicked me in the ass. I […]