Gross dreams

Last night I dreamed I spat a huge slug out of my mouth. That is positively the last time I go to bed without brushing my teeth! But one of the advantages of being a writer is that sometimes I get paid for my nightmares.

February 25, 2009
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Advantages of Writing: #1

One of the advantages of being a writer is that they can’t put you in solitary confinement. Wherever they put me, my whole cast of characters comes too. When you talk to God, it’s called praying.When God talks to you, it’s called paranoid schizophrenia.When a headful of imaginary people talk to you, it’s called being a fiction writer. So I’m a writer because the voices tell me so. Which is…

November 19, 2008
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