Sleep Paralysis

I still like the film Inception. This is not an unusual opinion, it was a huge blockbuster hit, but in general the film seems to have diminished somewhat in the public estimation in the decade since its release. Many of…

Out Loud

Subtlety is overrated. I find I have less patience these days for slow burns and coy insinuations, for quiet stories that never quite go anywhere or actually say anything. When I was first studying writing and art, I resisted the…

Half Measures

There are certain ideas that I find myself endlessly revisiting, ideas so flexible that I end up appealing back to their analogies on a weekly basis. One such idea is that of Zeno’s Paradox, which goes thus: In order to…

Buying Time

We’re running out of time, or time is running out on us. I have a problem with boundaries – not with interpersonal boundaries, but with perceiving divisions in a continuum. How do you decide where a river ends and the…

Writers Blocking

An idea which many artists at first rebel against, but are generally forced to accede to, is that of constraints breeding creativity. It can be galling, to one who considers themselves creative, to admit to all the confusion and terror…

Making Things Right

I think a lot about what’s right. Not necessarily what is moral, just, factual, or ethical – though frequently those as well – but what fits, what makes sense, what’s appropriate, what’s useful. I think as much about what I…