Stop It. It’s Not Funny.

I was told the other day that I should try writing a funny story. My stories are so serious. A man going blind, a couple that can’t have children, a girl who gets picked on in school cause she’s a nerd. Not anything you would spit your milk/beer/soda out of your mouth for or more painfully through your nostrils, I know.  I don’t know why I don’t write comedy. I love funny stories. I just don’t know if...

Novel Writing Postpartum

I’ll repeat what I said the last time: It’s hard to write a novel. I start out by shrugging off the future embarrassment I’ll feel, having no idea that my thinking isn’t anything but terribly original and profound. And then I write and I write and I write. I get inspired and I write. I lose inspiration and I write. I stop writing and I feel ashamed. I lose the thread. Something is gumming up...