Recently published (11-08)

From Columbus Alive:
Current needs and future plans of the Mid-Ohio Foodbank.
Interview with local musician Happy Chichester.
Mr. Etch-a-Sketch talks about his presidential portraits.
Radical free space at Sporeprint Infoshop.
From my blogs:
Space books that we love (for children… mostly) at Tiny Mantras.
Sad Last Days: Contents of Evel Knievel’s motorhome for sale at Auction Chronicles.

School Funding Awareness Week

Back when Ohio’s system of funding education was ruled unconstitutional in the mid-1990s, I wrote about it for a local alternative weekly. There were astonishing stories about what poverty meant to education statewide — like the one about a rural school building that sat on a hillside, its foundation slowly slipping over a gas [...]

Recently published

Here are a few of the pieces I published this summer that are available online:
• Light House: An Interview with artist James Turrell, about his architectural lighting installation at Franklin Park Conservatory.
• Go With the Flow, about the “Ways of Knowing Water” exhibit at Ohio State University’s Urban Arts Space.
• Q & A with Animator [...]

Useful resources

I’ve updated my web links over the past couple of weeks.
Among my favorite additions is The Renegade Writer, which is a solid blog about freelance writing that also has a markets wiki where writers can go and share some of the experiences they’ve have had querying or writing for various publications. It’s great to see [...]

The word economy

Every time a newspaper or magazine is redesigned, the call for additional white space and images shrink the spaces available for articles. New media publications demand that writing be as concise and interactive as possible. Writers’ roles have shifted. We have to think more like television and radio producers and learn to better [...]

Generating random ideas

For as long as I can remember life on the web, there has been the Surrealist Compliment Generator – a simple bit of programming that allows you to reload the page over and over, telling you that your eyes are like “milky pools of pantyhose” that you have “the intrepid appeal of a carnivorous apple [...]

Your input wanted: Favorite writing sites

As I continue to go through my bookmarks to pull the blogroll of this site together, I would love to find out which sites about writing that you find most useful, fun or illuminating. I will also be doing some site reviews on this blog. Please post links to sites you feel are worth [...]

The beginning…

Over the years, I’ve received multiple emails from wanna-be freelancers asking for help or advice as they tried to launch their writing careers — many more emails than I’ve been able to answer. I’ve always kept a link page available for these visitors, directing them to a few online resources that I thought might be [...]