As I was leaving work today, I found an article in Popular Mechanics about George Lucas, which caught my eye and on which I bestowed the five minutes it took to read it. The gist of it - as you would imagine from an article in Popular Mechanics - was Lucas' career-long pushing of the digital envelope. He has from his earliest days, apparently, been ( Read more... )

Inspired by Lamott's Bird by Bird, I have been mucking about - and that seems to be exactly the right word for what I have been doing - with some creative writing. That despite my obvious handicap: viz, I am not at all creative. Still, I've spent the odd hour or so at the keyboard, playing at the craft of writing ( Read more... )

We've lost a great and good man, this weekend. And when I say "we", I mean "all humans" - not just Catholics.

I've just finished reading the Journal-Constitution's special on John Paul's pontificate, and I am once again reminded of just what an amazing man he was ( Read more... )

I've started reading Bird By Bird, by Anne Lamotte. She's a writer, and the book is the distillation of what she's been teaching in creative writing courses in San Francisco, for years. So far, what she's said is that writers are not necessarily happy; very few make a living at it; and being published is not the Holy Grail that makes everything ( Read more... )

Easter Sunday ( Read more... )

Well, here we go into the wide, wonderful world of Internet publishing. What, you think this is not publishing? Au contraire, blogs and such offer the opportunity for anyone with a computer and modem to present their writing to the public. Well, the on-line public, anyway; but the on-line public is huge ( Read more... )