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July 2010

July 18, 2010

How I Got a Blog on Huffington Post (And Help Me Mooch Indian Food!)

Last night Cat and I had drinks and dinner with a new friend (DR!) at...

July 09, 2010

Cat Writes Our Lives

By way of some work I'm doing on All In ... Almost (or, "Wow, Obnoxious...

July 08, 2010

Writing Jobs I’ve Had (And What They Paid)

In the comment thread of yesterday's What Book Publishers Want Most, But Can’t Have, a reader...

July 07, 2010

What Book Publishers Want Most, But Can’t Have

A continuation of the conversation I started with yesterday's My New Book Has Taken Over...

July 06, 2010

My New Book Has Taken Over My Head

What I should do is kill this blog. It's about my only hope for finishing...

June 2010

June 25, 2010

“Waffles?”

As I sit here feeling for some terrible reason I sense but can't grasp that...

May 2010

May 30, 2010

Know

It's four a.m., and I just awoke from a dream that ended with me in...

March 2010

March 05, 2010

Sad Proof I’m Still Straight

Dear gay friend of mine from high school who is now a pretty famous interior...

September 2009

September 23, 2009

Don’t Make Me Smack You With a Ruler in Public This Weekend

This Saturday (September 25) I'll be at the annual San Diego Christian Writers Guild's writer's...

July 2009

July 25, 2009

My Life as a Major Criminal, Pt. 2

[This is part two of day-before-yesterday's My Life as a Major Criminal.] “Almost time,” Ben...

June 2009

June 02, 2009

Blogging. Flogging. What’s the Diff?

This morning a reader, "urbanruralwitness," left the saddest comment on my post My Cup Runneth...

May 2009

May 31, 2009

Let Me Entertain You; Let Me Make You Smile

[scribd id=15978488 key=key-bb0pu42q1iod1mg5xri] I’ve bundled into an e-book 35 of my funniest blog essays,...

April 2009

April 14, 2009

Free Bestselling Book Idea!

For 10 years now I've been carrying around in my out-sized head a book idea...

March 2009

March 08, 2009

Must God be a He-Man?

"Christians go crazy if you in any way suggest that God isn't a man," said...

January 2009

January 25, 2009

The Secret to More/Better Writing? Stop Trying.

My advice to people who think they should be writing more but for some reason...

January 19, 2009

My Bloggy Schizophrenia

Some of you were wondering why for a bit there I changed the name of...

November 2008

November 24, 2008

A Would-Be Writer Asks: “MUST I Go to College?”

This morning I received an e-mail from an aspiring author. "I am currently paying the...

September 2008

September 28, 2008

Humbled by Beginning Writers

This morning I am feeling humble. Outside of a religious context this is a rare...

September 19, 2008

Writers: Don’t Self-Publish; My Blogging Advice Bites

In response to my recent post, Overcoming The Harsh Realities of Book Publishing, a reader (hello, "Jim...

September 17, 2008

Overcoming The Harsh Realities of Book Publishing

On Saturday, September 26, I'll be conducting a workshop at the annual San Diego Christian Writers...

June 2008

June 30, 2008

Why A Book Proposal Is Everything

If you're just joining us, see How To Write A Book Proposal, Part 1. Even...

June 28, 2008

A bit about book proposals

I just finished and sent to my agent a book proposal. So now I have...

May 2008

May 13, 2008

How To Earn Respect and Power, Kids

Yesterday, at Jamul Intermediate School, in Jamul, California, I spoke to fourth and fifth graders about writing....

May 10, 2008

Blogging; Writing A Play

Every blog post I write appears in three places at more or less the same...

April 2008

April 26, 2008

How To Write in Tandem with God/Holy Spirit

I get a fair amount of questions/input around the dynamic of writing in conjunction with...

April 22, 2008

How To Become a Factory of Story and Article Ideas

One of my Big Points in yesterday's More On How to Make A Living Writing was,...

April 20, 2008

March 2008

March 26, 2008

Not Involved

[Family life. Fiction. It's all part of the same pot, isn't it?] David looked up...

March 16, 2008

“Penguins, Pain and the Whole Shebang” Sold to Korean Publisher

One minute you're staring vacantly at your computer fleetingly wondering how long it's been since you...

January 2008

January 22, 2008

Good Talker Doesn’t Equal Good Writer

A couple of readers were kind enough to ask me to elaborate on a point...