
November is National Novel Writing Month or, for those in
the know, NaNoWriMo. The month-long challenge that began in 1999 with 21 novelists
has evolved to a much larger production; lots and lots of writers log in and attempt
to...

I was
feeling badly about feeling badly about this time of year. Specifically:
Autumn, and even more specifically, what has become the month-long build-up to
everyone’s second favorite holiday, Halloween. Because I’ve never...
"As soon as we express something, we devalue it strangely. We believe ourselves to have dived down into the depths of the abyss, and when we once again reach the surface, the drops of water on our pale fingertips no longer resemble the ocean from which they came...Nevertheless, the treasure shimmers in the darkness unchanged." ---Franz Kafka