I’m pleased to announce that five songs from the Steve’s Quest soundtrack have been fully recorded and mixed, and are now available for listening and download here.
I decided to put these out there for your (hopefully) listening pleasure, because the visual side of our production is taking a bit longer than I originally expected, and [...]

I’m excited to share a new song that appears in the second episode of Steve’s Quest, my upcoming online animated musical, called “Give Her The Tour.”
This song is a duet between Steve, our software engineer hero, and Ash, Steve’s friend and self-appointed romantic adviser.  Ash is giving Steve advice about how to romance Sabrina, Steve’s [...]

I recently realized that, whenever I’m doing something creative, whether it’s writing a song or a blog post or something else, one question I’m usually, and unconsciously, asking myself is:  “would my parents be okay with this?”
Not surprisingly, this concern is particularly strong when I’m writing a piece where some of the characters are parents.  [...]

Growing up, I believed that, if I told someone I was feeling sad or hurt, I would be “complaining.”  People who complain, I thought, are whiny and weak.
So, to be a “good boy,” and later on, a “real man,” I made sure I kept my moments of sadness and hurt to myself.  In fact, you [...]

I’ve definitely come to see how creating something, especially something long-term and time-intensive like my show, requires us to put a lot of faith in ourselves and the goodness of the universe.
To stay motivated to keep working on creative projects, we need to believe some super-optimistic stuff — ideas many people would dismiss as unrealistic, [...]

Photo of my place while writing this show (okay, actually some Steve’s Quest background art)
Watching a few seconds of my show (which you’ll be able to do very soon!) will probably make it clear that I didn’t write the piece with any particular “market” or “demographic” in mind.
After all, the main character is a software [...]

The last few months have definitely been a creatively explosive period for me, in ways I didn’t expect and I’m not accustomed to.
It started back in September when I was flying back from a friend’s wedding.  For whatever reason, ideas for a musical spontaneously popped into my mind.  Thankfully, I had a yellow pad with [...]

If I see myself as a burden, I probably won’t talk to you.  When I see you, I’ll most likely think “oh, they must have so many interesting and fun people around them — they don’t need me taking up more space in their life.”  To make sure I don’t bother you, I’ll avoid [...]

I’ll start by thanking everyone who’s checked in with me during my month-long absence from blogging — that really brought home to me that I’ve made some genuine connections in the blogging world, and it’s not all just about “one hand washing the other” and “you scratching my back and me scratching yours” and collectively [...]

I do something kind of unusual when I’m writing.  (I know, shockingly enough.)  I keep a journal of what I’m feeling and thinking when I’m faced with writer’s block.
To an outside reader, this journal would probably seem painfully repetitive, because it talks about the same worries again and again.  Some common themes are:
* “I think [...]