I’m still a writer first, and always will be. But filmmaking gave me a way to do it in the company of others.

Zine fests are a great for meeting new authors and finding inspiration. They’re like art openings for writers! Here are some tips for tablers and attendees.

Life has been hitting me on the head a bit harder lately, and I’m figuring out how to deal with it, emotionally, professionally and creatively.

Step away and build a birdhouse, and your story will be suddenly discernible. The birds will appreciate it too.

When you’ve worked the same area over and over and over from nearly every angle, it’s time to either give it a big rest or go do something else.

Those people who so effortlessly click out blog posts while sipping coffee must have thousands of fans all over the world anticipating their every update.

Getting distribution for your film can mean a lot of things. And for true indie filmmakers, often enough, what it means is not good.

The greatest pieces of journalism, the ones that changed things, have rarely been rip-and-read pieces.

If a for-profit enterprise is making money from folks who contribute for free, I’m immediately suspicious.

My friend hosting us said, “Hey, let’s make a vision board!” I thought I would rather die.

A deadline is the arch nemesis of humanity’s most endearing hindrance, procrastination.

My motivation for writing work would flame high and then, when I felt like I wasn’t succeeding well enough or fast enough, it would completely burn out.

I’d peel my face off the pillow and read what I’d written the night before. And even in my still fermented state, I knew it was trash.

He used his #2 pencils to record, in tiny perfect handwriting, every single writing-related task that he carried out each day for 50 years.

Even if you are a social media maven who gets tons of web traffic, your work will be useless if you can’t report and write and if you don’t have great news judgment.

If we want to be working writers, the only thing that really matters is that we keep showing up.