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Why Scrivener? [video]
So I made this short video called “Why Scrivener?”Why the hell did I make it?… I’ve been tutoring people on how to use Scrivener for many years now. I find that it is effective to first show people...
View ArticleSay the Thing: A pretty dumb text-to-speech app
tl;dr: I mistakenly made an app. It’s free. If you use an iPad or iPhone for writing and you like having the device read what you write, get it. (p.s. It requires iOS 11.) Each morning, you’re probably...
View ArticleWriting Through Pain (video)
It’s time for my yearly visit to the online surface – where I pop my head up, look around, and when I don’t get enough likes (or I get too many likes), I go back into my hole until next year. This time...
View ArticleHow I Use Tech to Write (video)
For the past few years, I’ve wanted to make a video about my writing process when I’m working on a book-sized project. My process is a zig-zaggy combination of scribbling and typing and listening. I...
View ArticleDarth Vader and the Lemon
A short story of mine (Darth Vader and the Lemon) was just published in Carve Magazine. It’s a story about the complexities of step-parenting, and it’s full of bad metaphors about Star Wars. The oldest...
View ArticleWriting a Novel When You’re Too Busy to Write a Novel (video)
In a blog post about my forthcoming novel, I claimed that I’d pull together a video about writing the novel. Well, here it is. It’s under five minutes, but it still required 1060 bad drawings, some...
View Articlea multi-creative in the attic (video)
I’ve always struggled with being monogamous when it comes to my creative outlets. I’ve been writing for most of my adult life, but I also dabble with YouTube videos and making apps and making music...
View Articlethe I-don’t-know-ness (video)
So I’m trying out non-animated videos with the notion that I might be able to create more than two a year when I’m not crudely drawing every single frame… But, unfortunately, we now have to rely on my...
View Articleexpose your mess (video)
I’ll admit it. I resent other writers who can write something start to finish without needing any input. For me, after bathing in the unknown (aka: my last video), I need to have others look at it. I...
View Articlemake something terrible (video)
I recently got some insight into my creative process from my kid’s music teacher… who is now, somehow, my music teacher… even though I previously had no skill or interest in music. But he’s really...
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