Category Archives: Writing

Take Care of Yourself is the story of a recently graduated young man tossed from an elite university into the depths of a recession. It’s the story of a young man who is tossed from a dream world of meritocracy … Continue reading →

Justin – What’s up, man, what’s going on? I hear we’re doing pretty good these days. We’ve got a job and whatnot — a real job. I mean, fresh out of college, whatever, but we’re at a desk, we’ve got … Continue reading →

As you’ve likely noticed if you follow this blog, I’ve migrated Halftime from Tumblr to WordPress this week. I’d mostly grown frustrated with Tumblr’s content management system, as well as the inability to field commenters from beyond the Tumblr universe — … Continue reading →

I was poking around in the drafts section of my content manager, sweeping the floor of half-finished posts from months past. With a few distracted clicks, I mistakenly deleted a draft copy of a chapter from my novel-in-progress that I’d … Continue reading →

I’m not yet very good at incorporating extensive dialogue into my fiction pieces; I’m all about plot-driving and sketching via vivid paragraphs. I want to work on that. The next few fiction pieces I post here will be stripped down, … Continue reading →

I took a short fiction course at Georgetown a few years back. I hated my own writing and almost everyone else’s writing (but mostly my own writing) in that class. Georgetown breeds terrible writers because (1) aspiring wonks generally make … Continue reading →