Archive - Destroy Your Safe and Happy Lives

Yes, it HAS been a while since my last newsletter. Sorry about that.

Jul 6, 2022

March 2022

I have a lot of thoughts about The Men, the Lambda Literary Awards, and Twitter. I've tried to get them into something like a straight line.

Mar 23, 2022

Hello! The Virginia Festival of the Book is coming up, and while I won’t have the good fortune to be going to Charlottesville this year, I am…

Mar 11, 2022

Don't let the world overwhelm you—focus on what you can do, here and now.

Mar 2, 2022

December 2021

Don't abandon creative impulses simply because you’re afraid they won’t work out.

Dec 22, 2021

One social media platform passeth away, and another social media platform cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.

Dec 10, 2021

November 2021

tick, tick… BOOM! is a fantastic film about the creative process. In order to talk about that, I've had to include some spoilers.

Nov 28, 2021

(I wrote the core of this for my first NaNoWriMo series. I’ve tweaked it a bit for 2021.)

Nov 25, 2021

One week left to go! How you feeling?

Nov 23, 2021

… my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.

Nov 20, 2021

What matters isn’t how much money writing makes you, but how it transforms your life.

Nov 18, 2021

Maybe they haven't. And there's a whole bunch of reasons why that might be the case. Don't get worked up about it.

Nov 17, 2021

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