Kill Your Darlings

Kill Your Darlings

by | Jun 21, 2016 | Uncategorized

“Kill your darlings” is literary gospel, a ubiquitous phrase that commands action upon one’s prose. Cut, kill, slash, rewrite. Trim the superfluous flab. Popularized in novel and screenwriting guides in the ’90s, it’s been ascribed to...
Competent Ones

Competent Ones

by | Apr 6, 2016 | Uncategorized

We are the competent ones. We are the ones who carry on, who become stoic instead of hysterical, the ones who shoulder a weight like it is nothing, nothing at all. We are the ones who make it right for everyone, who don’t say no if you need help, but almost always say...
Houseguests #3: GPS

Houseguests #3: GPS

by | Mar 25, 2013 | Uncategorized

We’ve had a host of house guests in Casa Colando, California: most interesting, some sublime, some ridiculous, some petty, a nervy test to the nerves. Reader beware, lest the latter people come to inhabit your house. A couple called, saying that they were flying...