Life
The Passion of the Semi-Colon
Rituals From A Far Country (Attending the Emmys)
A Taste For Ingres
Writing
Potato Chips
Why I Like Heroes With Unsolvable Problems
To Live By the Pen (what it means to have a career as a writer, with special attention to the Writers Guild strike of 2007)
Producing a Script: First You Need Stamina
Because You Make Things
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
How Research Leads To Nihilism
Research and Nihilism, Part Two: The Three Big Cheats
POV, part one
POV, part two
For They Will Say Both Yes and No (a reply to A.S. Byatt’s critique of Harry Potter)
Breaking In
Finding An Agent
Constructing A Spec Script