Who's This Alan Wright?
And what's with the kilt? My manuscript of WHERE YOU WILL DIE is now in the hands of a very accomplished and insightful editor, giving...
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So, I Killed a Darling
An entire chapter of WHERE YOU WILL DIE, put out of its misery. Accomplished authors and teachers of the writing craft all agree: Good...
Watch Me Read: "Some Pruning is Best Done in Fall"
In October 2020, I participated in the first-ever Zoom meeting of WordFest - the long-lived and beloved forum for Pacific Northwest...
Memento Mori
"If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For, in the final analysis, our most basic...
Sneak Peek - Opening of WHERE YOU WILL DIE
No one is more surprised than I to report I am meeting the milestones I set for myself in this last big edit of my novel, WHERE YOU WILL...
WHERE YOU WILL DIE
A New Direction for My Novel After three years of drafting, editing, and revising, I am embarked on the final preparations of my novel,...
Pan-American
"Hell is the impossibility of reason." Oh, heady days! Late imperial, early feudal, rancor in the air like poison smoke. We breathe in...
Song Without Melody
I am roiled tonight with questions. What inexorable force impresses choice beyond all good and evil? Why does the mantle of...
Fable for a Broken People
One day in a time and place not far from here, a man named Oben went to market to buy bread for his family. He left his wife and nearly...
Not everything that is faced can be changed...
“Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced,” - James Baldwin
Keep your face to the sunshine...
"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. It's what sunflowers do." - Hellen Keller
Camp For Free - Review - A Great Primer from a Pro
The first, best thing about John Soares' CAMP FOR FREE is that it makes you want to get out there and enjoy the sheer beauty of Wild...
Join the Loyal Opposition
We are Not the Enemy Here are three phrases I hate as some of the most damnable and destructive lies in our cultural lexicon: “All’s fair...
The Kid Meets the Unknown Professional
My recent post on Medium - from my poetry collection THE END OF AN ORDINARY LIFE The Kid Meets the Unknown Professional
Medium is Where I 'Blog'
I've never had much success with blogging. What do instead, is post my fiction, poetry and essays on Medium, a great publishing platform...
Of Flame and Freeze and Simple Dumb Luck
Fire chased us from our Paradise home. Now snow traps us in our Eugene refuge. A foot of fresh powder fell on our South Eugene...
Steel Stapler, Wooden Box, and Ceramic Jar Walk Into a Story
The Best day of His Life When Steel Stapler was first brought to The Desk, shiny and new from the stationary store, he was sure he’d...
Fine Scottish Days
"Fine Scottish day" I say, leading Coco by the leash down the muddy lane to the dog park. "Aye, 'tis that" Pat replies. January in...
May the Bridges I Burn Light the Way
The morning of November 8, 2018, about 8:30, my wife and I were beginning our day as we had for years: Workouts, a light breakfast, a...