WRITING

I consider myself a writer who just hasn't taken the time required to create a "body of work". What that means, in fact, is that I'm a writer who doesn't write. Why I've chosen that rather than being a surgeon who doesn't cut or a painter without a brush might make an interesting question for another time. Not now.

I have worked with a partner to write a one-act play that won a contest and was produced in Omaha, Nebraska. 'HUMAN SKELETAL REMAINS' went on from there to be picked up and produced at the St. Clemens Church in New York City. I joined, three years later, with another partner to write a screenplay which, in our opinions stank to high heaven, but caught the interest of an agent who asked us to do a rewrite. Being serious writers, we didn't. And I never finished anything again.

Now, I've lived far longer than I'd ever expected to and am healthier than I've ever been in my life. Most of the plans I've operated on are shot to hell and it looks like I could stay alive for at least another 20 years or so. Time to rethink everything about what is important to me. One of those "everything I know is wrong" points in life.

What I Know Now:

• Nobody is going to live forever.
• A lot of people are going to live longer than they expected.
• Writing is the only thing I've done that scared me as much with success as with failure.
• Only the immortal can be concerned with success and failure.
• Writing, for me, is whatever I say it is.
• Right now, writing is, as often as possible, putting one word after another.

This Web Site:

I am posting this web site as a place to publish as I work. The thought being that will keep me going and might actually give people a chance to read what I'm doing. I realize how narcissistic that is, as well as how in error it probably is. So, I'm going to post my poetry. I'm going to post a blog. I'm going to devote a page to the National Novel Writing Month. I'm going to put up other work as it comes together.

Important Note:

I've done profoundly well at not writing. I've honed this to an art that shows more skill and persistence than any of the writing I've actually done.

Armed with that knowledge, I'm posting this site with no intention of letting it become the new reason I don't have time to write. There are going to be a lot of errors, a lot of horrible formatting and just plain shitty content. Such is life. Such is writing.