Keep a list of low stakes activities that interest you. Star the ones about which you’re reasonably sure you’ll never have to care what other people think of your performance in them. You know how they say that depression isn’t always about feeling sad, and anxiety isn’t always about feeling…

My literary citizenship these days is mostly about organizing write-ins for Barrelhouse. Once or twice a week, we open a chat room where writers can log in and then just…write. Here’s an overview of how it works, and we’ll be doing write-ins until at least the end of November. (If…

Time in, garbage out. — Eventually you’ll figure it out, so let me save you some time: The office with a view over my mental fiction writing warehouse is usually empty or on fire. I’m all over the place with process and attitude and dreams. …

I favorited this tweet so hard I almost put a hole through my screen: Several years ago, I (mostly) stopped sending my stories out. I had a few reasons. One of the reasons, the totally movie-ready one that’s now basically over and done, you’ll be able to read about…