Next to writing screenplays for a living, writing video games for a living is my dream.

It’s not easy to balance your day job with your dream job, especially when you have to factor in sleep once in a while.

Recapping a full weekend of barbecue, movie screening and press junkets. Throw in a few stars sightings for good measure.

I realize that this is not a good time to start hating where you work, but sometimes you can’t help the way you feel.

New Year’s resolution failure and a brief explanation for why I haven’t been blogging as consistently as I had planned to.

Throughout my history, pressure cookers have been my best friends and my worst enemies. I pushed my aging pressure cooker too far and these are the results.

People from my past are coming out of the woodwork and each time I get a notification I’m deathly afraid it’s going to be someone I hate.

Being versatile and essentially good at everything makes you valuable as an employee, but you typically only get paid for one ability at a time.

I’ve got a lot of chores to do to get ready for the work week and even more writing to do to meet deadlines. It’s a hardknock life for me.

Forget about losing weight or quitting cigarettes. My resolutions are all about doing what I do best better and more frequently. At least I’ll have a good shot at sticking to them.

When I’m sick, I find that I have little energy to do anything else but write. Here’s a post to catch everyone up on a few things going on in my life.

“Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair!” That’s right folks! It’s another site redesign for good ol’ Working Author. This time, however, I think it’s going to be a very long time before I do another major revamp.

Well, this has been an interesting year. Then again, what years aren’t? I find if I’m getting bored with life, I try to do something different to spice things up.

This is what happens when your baby niece sneezes on you. It also might have something to do with eating Taco Bell.

“Nothing to see here. Everything’s fine. Move along.” Turns out my fears for the winter holidays were premature. I guess I will buy presents this year!

“Save a spot for me.” There’s talk about reducing my hours at work and scarier rumors of shutting down the entire company for three weeks. Not good during the holidays.

This Thanksgiving, it’s always good to look back and see the good things in your life before time with the family at Christmas depresses you again.

If you’ve been following the news, you’ve probably heard mention of the fires that are engulfing Southern California. If you live in Southern California, then that’s all that’s on the news right now. It’s nothing new for us. Fires seem to be more frequent then earthquakes these days — at least memorable ones — not counting the one we had a couple of months ago that was epicentered right below Chino Hills, where I live. Anyway, I’ve always viewed California fires the way I imagine most non-Californians do: with a certain level of detachment since it’s just happening on TV.

I think I’ve allowed myself to be a little too whiny lately. By that I mean I’ve allowed all of the complaining I’ve been doing — internal and external — to become the excuses for not getting stuff done regarding my writing career. That’s not to say I don’t already have a writing career, but you know the one I’m talking about: my creative writing career. Being a copywriter is great and all. I mean, it sure beats customer service, right? But is it the thing I want to be doing for the rest of my life? Hardly. So that begs the question: Why aren’t I doing everything within my power to further the career I want?

As a struggling writer, it’s important to keep yourself busy with side projects to beef up your portfolio, expand your experience and network with other creative people that can help you. I haven’t written too much about my current projects lately, because there wasn’t much to write about, but here’s a quick update.