essays

Life

The Passion of the Semi-Colon

Rituals From A Far Country (Attending the Emmys)

A Taste For Ingres

 

Writing

Potato Chips

Why I Like Heroes With Unsolvable Problems

To Live By the Pen (what it means to have a career as a writer, with special attention to the Writers Guild strike of 2007)

Producing a Script: First You Need Stamina

Because You Make Things

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell

How Research Leads To Nihilism

Research and Nihilism, Part Two: The Three Big Cheats

POV, part one

POV, part two

For They Will Say Both Yes and No (a reply to A.S. Byatt’s critique of Harry Potter)

Breaking In

Finding An Agent

Constructing A Spec Script

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