by Chris | Feb 13, 2012 | Uncategorized
“On a cold blowy February day a woman is boarding the ten a.m. flight to London, followed by an invisible dog.” So begins a wonderful Valentine’s Day book and one of my favorite romances, Alison Lurie’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Foreign Affairs. I remember when I first...
by Chris | Feb 11, 2012 | Uncategorized
As if I needed any more reason not to see my book-wager money to fall into the hands of the anti-gay marriage crowd, I now learn that the forces of evil have vowed to undo the work of the Washington State legislators who bravely voted this week to extend full marriage...
by Chris | Feb 4, 2012 | Uncategorized
So about this challenge I’m in: The StickK website has my credit card information. On April 25 they’ll e-mail me a certificate asking me if I’ve honored the resolution I launched a couple weeks ago, i.e., whether I wrote the first draft of a new...
by Chris | Jan 30, 2012 | Uncategorized
I’m now two weeks into writing my new novel from scratch. I still haven’t come up with names for the characters — they’re still just letters of the alphabet. This is probably a good thing because writing their names out longhand would...
by Chris | Jan 24, 2012 | Uncategorized
I’m now a week into the challenge of writing the first draft of a new novel. If I don’t have it written by April 25, I’ve pledged to fork over $100 to an institution devoted to denying gays and lesbians the right to marry. Needless to say, putting money...
by Chris | Jan 16, 2012 | Uncategorized
As many of you know, I’m looking forward to publishing my second novel, “You Are Here,” by this summer. I now find myself itching to tackle a new project. But what to write? What characters, what plot to create? And can I really afford to devote...
