Dispatches from the City of Angels
I'm a writer and humorist living in and writing about Los Angeles. You can catch my novel LOSING CLEMENTINE out March 6 from William Morrow. In the meantime, feel free to poke around. Over at my website you can find even more blog entries than I could fit here, as well as a few other ramblings. Enjoy and come back often.
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Favorite Quotes:
"Taint what a horse looks like, it’s what a horse be." - A Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett
"Trying to take it easy after you've finished a manuscript is like trying to take it easy when you have a grease fire on a kitchen stove." - Jan Burke
"Put on your big girl panties, and deal with it." - Mom
"How you do anything is how you do everything."
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The one where I endorse vomiting
Longtime blog readers know I run ultramarathons.
Ultamarathon: (noun) Any footrace longer than 26.2 miles, typically 50 kilometers, 50 miles, 100 kilometers or 100 miles, usually run on trail and characterized by other extreme elements including heat, cold, elevation change, river crossings and technical terrain.
Running an ultra is a lot like writing a novel. They're both daunting (crazy) undertakings, requiring many long, lonely hours ultimately leading you to doubt yourself and your (lack of) sanity. It takes a certain sort of (masochistic) personality and doggedness (stubborn as an old mule).
So any sort of platitude that ultra runners shout at each other usually holds true for writers, too.
My favorite?
"Puking is acceptable. Quitting is not."
My author pal Sue Ann Jaffarian wrote a whole blog about it. Check it out.
Now, I gotta go run.
(My blog now also appears on my snazzy new website. Have a look.)
Ultamarathon: (noun) Any footrace longer than 26.2 miles, typically 50 kilometers, 50 miles, 100 kilometers or 100 miles, usually run on trail and characterized by other extreme elements including heat, cold, elevation change, river crossings and technical terrain.
Running an ultra is a lot like writing a novel. They're both daunting (crazy) undertakings, requiring many long, lonely hours ultimately leading you to doubt yourself and your (lack of) sanity. It takes a certain sort of (masochistic) personality and doggedness (stubborn as an old mule).
So any sort of platitude that ultra runners shout at each other usually holds true for writers, too.
My favorite?
"Puking is acceptable. Quitting is not."
My author pal Sue Ann Jaffarian wrote a whole blog about it. Check it out.
Now, I gotta go run.
(My blog now also appears on my snazzy new website. Have a look.)
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