I spent ages filling up journals. I was going to write a novel, or a screenplay, or play.

I wrote a brief novella, Revision, that you can read on Amazon as an e-book. I also wrote a few forgettable short stories.

The other thing I wrote though, was letters. A lot of them.

Some time ago, a good friend of mine, Tom, said “you know, honestly, my favorite writing of yours is when you sort of go off on some sort of riff in one of your letters.”

That got me to focus on letters, and on those times that I’d read something in the middle of the personal “here’s how I’m doing, and how are you doing” stuff, and think “hmmm…this is something I’d kind of like to share with others.”

In other words: virtually everything on this site began as a letter to someone. My practice is to write a letter, transcribe it, and then find that cluster of words that I’d feel comfortable reading on a stage, or recording myself reading.

That’s really it. I’m starting this goofy thing where I auction off letters from me on Ebay. I find it kind of neat that even though I may reproduce the words in this site, there is only one original copy of the letter from which they came.

If you want to write me, feel free to contact me at [email protected]. If you include a mailing address, I’ll write back. At least I’ll write back now, before I have a steady clientele of rich people who pay me a thousand dollars a month to write them a letter. Then it might take longer, because a man has to make a living.