Confessions of a Working Writer

This is the start of a new chapter in my life. So why am I afraid of making the same mistakes as the last one? That's a lot more complicated than you think, but it turns out the answer is really simp…

This is my last week at the job I've had for the past couple of years. The future is incredibly uncertain. I alternate between stress, joy, and often crippling fear. Honestly, it's like being in the …

Last week I talked about being afraid. It's a fear I've been feeling for a while, and it got me thinking about a lot of things. Thinking about work, life, purpose, and passion. There's a lot of talk …

The name of the show is Confessions of a Working Writer, and I have a confession to make. I'm afraid. There are a lot of changes that I need to make. Changes that will lead to a new chapter in my lif…

The harder times get, the more I feel like I'm struggling, the more I feel the need to take a step back. But what does that even mean? How do we take a step back?

I don't know, but maybe we can talk a…

I've felt at a loss when it comes to inspiration for a while now. It's particularly tough because we tend to think of inspiration as some kind of mystical addition to the metaphysical calculus of our…

Do you find yourself constantly racing to 4x, 10x, or 1,000x your life? Are you constantly fine-tuning every single moment of your life? Is everything you eat weighed out and planned the night before…

Over my entire life of 41 years, I've developed a bad habit of not talking about what I'm working on with almost anyone. Why? Because it's hard to be respected in this society as a writer or an artis…

The past week I've thought a lot about the decisions I made based on fear, making my own rules for life, and how they were both reflected in me leaving a side job. It's interesting how we so often ch…

Where do you find community? 

It's a pretty common question these days, an oft-repeated siren's call to networking events promising to help you build a community. But what has become of those during t…

It felt like the rain in Charleston would never end. Okay, not really, but the rain was a very real thing. The skies were gray, the weather was cold, and it kind of sucked. Thing is, the rain was the…

I just turned 41 and this is where I am supposed to insert some kind of incredible moment or revelation or wisdom I've had.  But honestly, I don't know if I have any. I've just been sitting here, fli…

40 has been the craziest year on record for me. The pandemic, police violence, protests, violence at the Capital, a wild election, stock market insanity, and the continued push of grift have just mad…

Stephen King was a janitor.

Ken Kesey worked as an orderly at a mental hospital.

Margaret Atwood worked at a coffee shop.

 Langston Hughes bussed tables

James Joyce owned and worked in a cinema

Dostoyevsk…

Yesterday I set out to record a podcast episode with notes ready to go and a big ole bag of enthusiasm to share with the world. But then a lot of things went wrong and nothing got recorded. In the ni…

If you listen to me and draw some kind of inspiration, then the odds are that you're on some kind of journey. Maybe you're a writer, artist, or musician trying to make it. Maybe you're an entrepreneu…

Yesterday they stormed the Capital. 

What do we do? Will we even remember this event in a week? Those two questions are intertwined and this is my answer, whether you're a writer or not.

Support the sh…

It's a New Year and it's been a while since I took the time to answer some questions from listeners. Well, let's fix that! Join me for the first episode of 2021 as I answer questions ranging from men…

I'm trying to figure out the lesson I learned this past year. 

Not trying to figure out my words for the next one. Not setting resolutions about how my life will be different moving forward. And I'm n…

2020 is almost over!

Yay! I can't wait for 2021 when the world returns to normal and the new day dawns over all of us. Everything will be righted and all of those things I didn't get to during this ga…