Looking forward to giving a seminar to VetArts in Austin about submitting to literary journals. Dec. 19 at the Hillel Center.

“I write a little every day, without hope and without despair.”

- Isak Dineson

Free Webinar: The Reluctant Reader’s Toolkit.
I’m giving a free webinar on Monday, August 20 at 7 p.m. CST on how to give public readings successfully. Learn how to prepare for your performance, score your script like an actor for flawless delivery, and manage your anxiety, all from the comfort of your home via my friends at WriteByNight.

Sign up here: http://www.writebynight.net/the-reluctant-readers-toolkit-registration/

Maureen Seaberg interviewed me on her synesthesia blog at Psychology Today where I talk about my and my family’s experiences with synesthesia and its possible influence on both my coaching and my writing.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/tasting-the-universe/201203/five-is-male-and-pure-blue

“What little I’ve accomplished has been by the most laborious and uphill work, and I wish now I’d never relaxed or looked back—but said at the end of The Great Gatsby: I’ve found my line—from now on this comes first. This is my immediate duty—without this I am nothing.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (in a letter written to his daughter)

These words were written to his daughter at a time when Fitzgerald was considered washed up. Desperately in debt, he was living in Hollywood, trying and failing to write screenplays he could sell, and trying and failing as well to complete his final novel—The Last Tycoon—before his heart gave out.

This passage haunts me as much as anything I’ve ever read. For years I’ve kept these words taped to my computer to help me remember what’s at stake.