Writing

I Write Because I’m a Writer, and That’s What Writers Do.

In Writing on 10 November 2009 with 5 comments

I despaired yes­ter­day.
After decid­ing to fin­ish (or rather, truth be told, get a bet­ter start on) Book One of the Love & War paper series, I sat down at my desk to write and ended up read­ing chap­ters one through four, reas­sur­ing myself that I don’t, in fact, suck. While there are def­i­nitely sec­tions that […]

We Can Get There From Here: making a badass web

In Culture, Web Development, Writing on 3 November 2009 with no comments

My arti­cle, You Can Get There From Here: Websites for learn­ers is live today on A List Apart.
For var­i­ous rea­sons, this arti­cle was a long time com­ing. I started writ­ing it over a year and a half ago, but I just couldn’t spit out what I was try­ing to say. Every incar­na­tion of the article […]

Monsters On Parade

In Fiction, Halloween, Writing on 21 October 2009 with no comments

As the days begin to shrink in earnest and the tem­per­a­ture drops below what my California-reared skin can com­fort­ably lounge about in, mon­sters begin to claw their way out of my sub­con­scious and into the fore­ground. They whis­per, they cajole, they bark and they howl. Sometimes this is haunt­ing. Mostly, it’s extremely lib­er­at­ing.
Even as a […]

“All’s Fair in Love & War, Texas” is live">“All’s Fair in Love & War, Texas” is live

In Fiction, Narrative, Web Development, Writing on “All’s Fair in Love & War, Texas” is live">20 October 2009 with 1 comment

After months of prepa­ra­tion, All’s Fair in Love and War, Texas is finally live.
I real­ize it might not look like it to the untrained eye, but this web­site was a lot of work. (Work which, I have to admit, I mostly enjoyed.) It’s built on Wordpress, but it was my first attempt at build­ing a WP theme from scratch. […]