If there’s anything that starts to weigh us down it’s the potential of things that might or could have been, but aren’t. I think those are the living ghosts we can be haunted by that keep us up at night no matter how good things are.
Tag: Novel
Stories with women that are just set dressing or targets for the male protagonists are worthless. Flesh her out. Give her agency and goals of her own.
That is what this book is for me. It’s a silly story about a man who accidentally makes a movie, but along the way he, and hopefully I in writing it, will break, edit, delete and rewrite the articles above into something simpler, something elegant.
Perhaps he was protecting his image and social stature as a person who does not regularly need to poop in vulnerable public spaces- if at all.
Drawful the Awful is out, I’ve started a new job, and what that all means as a turning of a new chapter to me.
My final week of funemployment, thoughts on what comes next, and Drawful the Awful’s release date.
Working within the limitations of your medium, and the aspiration of unearthing great art with courage and honesty as your tools.
“[Like my hero,] on my best days I believe in the good that come from the things I do, the way I treat people, the work I get done- but there are plenty days where I feel like the world doesn’t want me or anything I can do for it, and those days I’ll admit- I’m running the motions waiting to die thanks to my depression.”
A friend from Twitter and awesome human, Avery Ames with her own take on the music for The Book of Resurrection, and a playlist that blows my prior attempt out of the water.
A preview of my next novel, The Book of Resurrection, by way of 5 songs that embody scenes from it.
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