In my writing life, I do things alone. I’m solitary, and reclusive, and then wonder why I feel forgotten at times. Do you ever feel forgotten? Maybe it’s you. Maybe it’s us, pal. In my professional life, I have thousands of people that I collaborate with, because there is no other way to get anything…
It’s pernicious, the way we think on memory. I like to make things up and insert them into the past. Some people call that fraud. I call it ‘writing’. In 1997, a madman named Richard Ashcroft fronted a band called The Verve. I don’t think they are making music anymore. In the world today, there…
I’m breaking a promise. I said I wouldn’t post fiction here, but I’m going to. This is an old story, a relatively short one, and I happened upon it again today. It’s indicative of the unclean way my writing mind works. It’s unpublishable. It’s not imbued with any meaning that I can detect. It’s just…
Hi all, I’m a bit quiet about my writing life and about me in general, for lots of reasons. I’m pretty sure this is me at my most revealing, however. It’s a podcast run by Jon DiSavino at Short Story Today, exploring writing and the stuff I do in the other part of my life.…
I hate writing about climate change in fiction because climate change is not fiction, but if the creative act imbues a piece of you into your made-up stories, then so be it. Just go for it. Between being in Dubai for COP28 and recently looking at the state of the climate change mitigation process in…
The days start at 7 am and go until 11 pm. The good thing is, we walk a lot, so it’s not like I’m sitting around doing nothing. And all this stuff, in the global south, it doesn’t actually spin in a different direction, but it’s not the same as what we know, either. I’m…
Nine songs from 2023 and into the first month of 2024. That’s what I’ve chosen to write about, as I languish in the US deep south, totally alone. People always talk about past decades and how great the music was. I do that all the time. But the reality is, we have more great music…
I’m terrible at social media, but it has its upsides. One is the people you meet. Actually, that’s the only upside, but it can be a big one. Fred Nolan is a dude. I can’t say it any other way. You can find him on X at @The_Fredwords and at his blog. On X, we…
I love the holidays. Just don’t find enough time to write, and I ache for it in and amidst the wine, the vodka, the heapings of meat, the desert tray. Find my best ideas float to me when I least expect them. I woke up this morning and I was positive about one of them.…
I don’t want to editorialize on the subject of my own story. I’m deeply grateful to Ex-Puritan for publishing it. It’s as pure a story as I’ve written. Please have a read. I’d be tremendously grateful for your feedback. https://ex-puritan.ca/a-moment-for-indra-singh
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