Read Write Play: 2020
2020's pandemic-disrupted Read Write Play recap: novel progress, Stephen King lessons, reduced blogging, and Beatles-Bach piano connections.
2020's pandemic-disrupted Read Write Play recap: novel progress, Stephen King lessons, reduced blogging, and Beatles-Bach piano connections.
Establishing a new daily routine during the pandemic with early morning workouts, family time, and work-from-home balance strategies.
Examining political differences between 'protect what's mine' vs 'share what's ours' through the lens of privilege, community, and immigration policy.
Becoming an adjunct business professor at DVC, where my grandfather once performed in choir, to teach digital marketing and bring real-world experience to students.
Stream-of-consciousness reflections on California life during the pandemic, neighborhood conversations, and considering leaving the Bay Area.
Three insights from writing my first novel: character development drives story, fiction flows like dreaming awake, and decision fatigue is real.
Character development exercise: creating the backstory for Jo, the protagonist's wife in my novel, through a childhood food kitchen experience.
Origin story for my novel's protagonist: seven-year-old Ben's Air Jordan disappointment when parents lose income, shaping his adult drive for control.