On Writing from Ray Bradbury

"Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for."


"Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy."


"If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down."

"I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice."

On Writing Well

"One of the strangest things about writing well is that it requires two different zones of the brain--rigor and recklessness--simultaneously." Carole Maso

Jack Kerouac's list of 30 beliefs and techniques for prose and life. A must-read from Brainpickings.org. Number 4 is great..."Be in love with your life"

Dwarf Stars 2013

My short poem, "Human Beings From Earth," is one of many chosen by the Science Fiction Poetry Association to be included in the Dwarf Stars Anthology for 2013. The anthology represents the best speculative poems of 1-10 lines published during the previous year. From these poems, the Association's voting body will then choose one winner. I doubt my funny little homage to a classic Twilight Zone episode will take the prize, but it's fun to be nominated.

On Screenwriting

"What you leave out is as important as what you leave in." Alexander Mackendrick (excerpted from ON FILM-MAKING: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE CRAFT OF THE DIRECTOR Edited by PAUL CRONIN)

Words From a Zen Monk

"Years of digging the earth searching for the blue sky,
piling up layer upon layer of mediocrity.
Then one dark night the ceiling blew off,
and the whole structure disappeared into emptiness." Muso

Words From Dune

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.” ― Frank Herbert, Dune