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If you’d asked me whether I was a writer at any point in the first half of my career, I would have told you no. Hell no. I’m a director. That’s always been my ambition — the chair, the camera, the set, the actors, the controlled chaos of bringing a story to life in front of a lens. Writing was someone else’s job. Writing was the thing I needed done so I could direct. So I did what any self-respecting director-in-waiting does: I found writers. Gifted, generous people who could

It's been a few weeks since my last blog post. I've been traveling through Portugal and just haven't been able to sit down and put my brain into words. I hadn't intended to write a new one yet, but this past week gave rise to an epiphany I needed to share. To make up for my absence — to the few wonderful people who are reading this — here are some pics from my time in Lisbon, Faro, and Porto. Is Anyone Else Terrible at Vacations? To say I haven't been able to write much since

You've heard it a thousand times: be consistent. It's not bad advice. But there's something that has to come first.

You created a piece of gold, but... No one will ever see it. Of course it has. New or aspiring writers, hate to tell you, but this is going to happen to you, too. You're going to write a whole pile of amazing shit that no one is ever going to see! Hell, what you write likely won't even be used... by you. Welcome to our brains. Getting an idea out onto paper is barely half the battle. So, Where'm I Going With This? You all know I love comics. LOVE them. Grew up on them. No, ac