I’m looking for 3–4 individuals who would be willing to review the new Roundbottom posts before I make them live on the site. I need fresh eyes that can catch bad sentences, stupid grammar, stupid anything really. Without an editor in the process, I worry about publishing some really subpar. I’m less concerned with storytelling […]
Tag Archive for ‘process’ 
The Addictive Properties of Creative Work
As I enter a phase of high productivity, I am reminded of the parallels I detect between the way I interact with my creativity and the effect of addictive drugs (as I have read, anyway. I’ve never taken any, unless you count xanax.) Acts of creativity bring on an emotional and energy high while I am […]
Postmortem:“Babe, I Am Going to Leave You”
Yesterday, I released my intensely personal story of death, Led Zeppelin, and how families cope with death, “Babe, I am Going to Leave You” as a CC-licensed story. A friend asked what my thinking was behind doing this, so I thought I’d break it down in a blog post, in case anyone else was interested.I […]
The Role of Idea in my Fiction
Part of my minicrisis last week about writing and getting back to it was that I was having trouble generating the ideas part of the equation. This is almost always my starting point; a cool idea that I can at least delude myself is something new that I haven’t seen done before. Or a twist […]