Creative Control

Miscellaneous Mental Musings of an Emerging Artist

Things you learn from various distances.

What I learned from the life and words of Lanford Wilson.

March 24, 2011 · Leave a comment

Rapid Response Team.

Thoughts on the relative speed of self-expression.

February 1, 2011 · Leave a comment

My element.

My relationship with stillness.

January 12, 2011 · Leave a comment

Dots per square inch.

For the sake of argument, let’s say these are resolutions.

January 3, 2011 · Leave a comment

Historical Friction.

In which I struggle with the chasm between veracity and drama.

December 30, 2010 · Leave a comment

WRITE CLUB: GIVE

Write Club is a monthly, literary bloodsport in which contenders face off against each other with 7-minute essays on competing topics. This was the combatant essay for GIVE.

December 23, 2010 · 1 Comment

Things I’ve Learned.

Ascent, descent, and learning to breathe the air at every altitude.

December 18, 2010 · Leave a comment

A Note to the Audience (Allegedly Invisible).

On the full array of disbeliefs being suspended.

October 19, 2010 · Leave a comment

Inventory, or Where Else I’ve Been.

The consequences of having the life you believe you want.

October 14, 2010 · Leave a comment

Impact.

“You expect to react with horror, of course, because a plane crash is horrific, a mess of tangled steel and broken limbs, the crater it leaves, the stench of jet fuel ablaze.”

August 14, 2010 · Leave a comment