The Starving Theater Artist

Was working on the trumpet today and realized I'd been cheating the lower notes by over-tonguing. That is, I'm not hitting those slo...

I started trumpet practice today running up and down the slots. And something changed. Hit the high C and just kept going...every note fell ...

The rain and cold are dragging at me. A project at work just got put on work-through-the-weekend priority. A school strike is messing up our...

I have this theory that sometimes you just aren't in writing mode and it is time to do music instead. Or you aren't in either, and i...

Writer's block is a symptom, not a disease. Sometimes it is symptomatic of something happening in your life...depression, life distracti...

No research, hah. Doing a modern Indiana Jones gives you the worst of two worlds. You have to research the historical side as if you were ...

Oh, yeah, the fun part of discovery writing. When you have to stop a couple of times every sentence to finally nail down a name or location....