Every October many of the players on the baseball teams in the playoffs grow out beards until their playoff run comes to an end. I took my own little twist on this time-honored tradition by growing out a manuscript writing beard. Being that I’m in Portland the beard didn’t really stand out too much. After [...]

After a bit of a hiatus over late December I’m back with the somewhat weekly installment of three great articles/blogs/videos/etc. As many of you know I posted a link carnival of sorts every week for over two years. For the sake of discussion and only putting out what I see to be high quality content [...]

One of the things I want to do in 2012 is open up this blog to other voices. Some of my favorite posts on this blog have been written by other people in part of the various blog series I’ve hosted (you can read them here). I’m not ignorant enough to believe that my writing [...]

Ever since I started working on the manuscript in September I haven’t shaved. At first I secretly thought I should just keep it growing until I finished the manuscript, which I guess is still a possibility since I’m past halfway and haven’t shaved yet. I get anywhere from 5 to 15 comments everyday from people [...]

It happens every now and then but not often enough. It hasn’t rained in Portland for 2 weeks, and the majority of those days have been completely sunny. Good thing it doesn’t stay this way for long or the people from SoCal will come here. Here’s my favorite three articles and posts this week: 1. [...]

Being that I’m in the middle of writing my first book manuscript right now I tend to do a lot of thinking about writing, especially writing in the form of a book. Book writing is a unique animal because most books are fairly long. Books give you an opportunity to completely dive into a topic [...]