There’s a four-inch thick blanket of hospital-white snow on the ground, and I wonder if its puffy composition is absorbing all the sound I’m making.

Chuck could not believe his fucking luck.

I may have overestimated my ability to keep from crumbling.

I may have overestimated my ability to keep from crumbling.

How To Keep Your Audience Interested When You've Stopped Being Interesting Yourself

How To Keep Your Audience Interested When You've Stopped Being Interesting Yourself

Ever wondered what it looks like when you pour years of work into a script you love like hell but it never quite sees the light of day? Well, take a gander, why don't you!

Ever wondered what it looks like when you pour years of work into a script you love like hell but it never quite sees the light of day? Well, take a gander, why don't you!

Homesickness as me reaching back into the archives to reprint a piece that means so much to me.

All I've done as working writer is make catastrophic mistakes; why not absorb the truths resulting from them?

All I've done as working writer is make catastrophic mistakes; why not absorb the truths resulting from them?

Parts of my career have been truly charmed. Parts have been Exxon-Valdez-level disasters. But this one particular performance almost ripped open the fabric of the Universe solely to erase me.

Parts of my career have been truly charmed. Parts have been Exxon-Valdez-level disasters. But this one particular performance almost ripped open the fabric of the Universe solely to erase me.

Did I bury the hatchet with the iconic film series that, traditionally, has done little for me? Well, there were hatchets and there were burials, that I can tell you.