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There’s something about the crystal blue-green expanse of lakes in Northern Michigan that make everything else in the world seem to fall away. The to-do lists, the upcoming road trip, the [...]

The first 59 pages of my novel-in-progress are officially drafted! All that remains is writing the email to the kind literary person interested in my work and I should be able to exhale just in [...]

There are a few modifications to my schedule I’ve had to make this summer in order to meet the July 31st deadline for the (beginning of the) novel. With my colleagues, I joke that I’m [...]

A few weeks ago, I explained the challenge I’d been given to write the first 50 pages of a novel (the n-word, as I called it, due to intimidation) along with a synopsis of the remainder of [...]

A few nights ago, I got to celebrate my friends’ upcoming marriage by floating on a pontoon boat across Green Lake. It must have been after 10:30pm by the time we moved the party onto the [...]

About this time last year, I wrote a short post titled “Ode to Teenagers” that turned out to be one of the (statistically) most popular posts on this site. It just goes to show, from [...]

I figure something like a “television debut,” however small or large, only happens once. Forgive the indulgence, but in case folks missed the episode, two versions are now available. [...]

Last October I wrote about Lost Crossings and working with the UNC-TV film crew that took an interest. The book explores a brief history of Western North Carolina’s swinging footbridges and [...]

It’s been a little over a week since I received the challenge to start the n-word and I’m at about 20 pages. When I’m in a highly generative mode at a residency, I can write 20 [...]

Most of my closest friends know that, if given another life and a different talent, I’d come back as a backup singer for a) Bob Dylan, b) Andrew Bird, or c) Josh Ritter. I say [...]