Six months ago I sat in the front row of a long, narrow room in La Silla Electrica Comedy Club in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and thought to myself, I would… Read more

The joke was about socks and nobody laughed. Let me explain. There are lots of subway vendors in Argentina. These vendors sell all sorts of things — stationery, bread, pens… Read more

This story is wandering along. It seems to be narrowing in on the relationship between two friends, as well as one family, that live in a futuristic, post-climate crisis city. It’s… Read more

I’ve started drafting on yellow legal pads. It’s been a good change. When I’m working on a new story, I have the bad habit of revising too soon, touching up… Read more

The thing they don’t tell you about revising a novel is that it totally sucks. I think it will be fun to really polish this piece — to make the… Read more

A little over a week ago I finished a first draft, which is to say that I wrote an ending to the novel and then went back to the very… Read more

Writing Time: 4h My many devoted fans have spent the last month clamoring for an update. Where’s Ben? What happened to him? Has he hung up the pen for good,… Read more

March 28 Writing Time: 5h Three hours in the morning, two hours directly after lunch. It was nice to finish all of my writing in one burst, but left me… Read more

Writing Time: 4h I’m a little disappointed with my writing time today — I had rehearsal and a stand-up meeting and the afternoon hours I had hoped to spend writing… Read more