Plight of the Poet

It has been too long since I’ve written something without a purpose. I so often used to write just to write, for the joy of it...

Monopole is a time-travel mystery novel about a world-famous physicist and engineer from the 1950s who, after creating what is arguably...

New setting, new characters, new cover, new title, new story, and it’s nearly twice as long. I'm very enthusiastic about all the...

I’m a much sillier person in person than I am on paper. #silly #person

How does one exist in anything less than the forty-two minutes it takes until the laundry’s done? By one, of course, I mean myself and...

Teddy found something in himself it would have been impossible not to find. It is as though what he became, what he would become, was...

The days, as of late, have been filling up more—all the while these words beckoning to me, tugging at my arm, begging me to pursue. Teddy...

I can’t write anything fiction. I’m far too self-serving for that. So I simply parade my thoughts around in metaphors and other people’s...

It’s been several days since a useful thought has come to me. More of the same old shit spewing from my brain. Sigh, fetter, waste. This...

With reason enough, I’ve been thinking over writing more and more…as of late. Beyond my current state of endeavors and affairs, I guess...

How many times is it going to take until you realize how good you’ve got it? No, don’t pick up the guitar and start playing music. You’re...

insert something thoughtful here. #somethingthoughtful #notreallyarmistice

What does one say when one sits down to write? He could speak of the sound of somebody outside wheeling the big plastic garbage can to...

I wonder to myself now if it is possible to be both contented and fulfilled. What need to pursue fulfillment is there if one feels...

Welcome to Plight of the Poet, the website devoted to my yet-unpublished novel Theodorus in Excelsis [now called Monopole]. Today, the...