Author Archives: Chris

About Chris

Chris is a writer, amateur athlete, and a professional fundraiser for the ACLU. He lives in Philadelphia.

The Writer’s Lexicon: Inciting Incident

Posted on February 21, 2012 by

Key to identifying the inciting incident, I think, is figuring out exactly whose story you’re telling. For a writer struggling with a plot structure, this can also help to determine what your central conflict is, and where the climax will fit. Conversely, deciding on whose story you’re telling might change your inciting incident. Continue reading →


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Paio suidae

Posted on February 20, 2012 by

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Winning the Future

Posted on February 17, 2012 by

My mother and I started the morning in a courtroom, observing a legal challenge to Conshohocken Borough’s new law protecting LGBT residents against discrimination. There were eight of us in the audience, all supporters of the law, while the plaintiff (who was … Continue reading →


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Carbon on Paper 1

Posted on February 16, 2012 by

Thought I would start posting original artwork from over the years – and new stuff, of course. Some of these are connected with my writing, and some are not. This one is.


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Jonathan Coulton, Internet censorship, and creativity as industry

Posted on January 24, 2012 by

As an author, I have a vested interest in copyright law. More than being illegal, I view piracy as morally wrong – but to put large corporations in charge of deciding what is or is not a violation of copyright is just totally ludicrous. Continue reading →


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