Your fingers find the keys. The rhythm starts before the thinking does.
The keys resist and give, resist and give. In that rhythm, the grasping of the mind lets go.
And the thing you were trying to say starts saying itself.
Every morning I freewrite at a 1963 Hermes typewriter.
What you make matters less than what making does to you.
What’s written from the body is alive. And when you share it, other people can feel it too.
THE PRACTICE
After earning my MFA, I built an off-grid home in Northern California by hand and spent several years leading writing retreats in Tuscany, Bali, and the Caribbean, bringing together writers, artists, and seekers at inspiring destinations where the real work begins. I’ve taught writing at the university level, coached bestselling authors and first-time novelists, and published several books across literary fiction, science fiction, prose poetry, and writing craft.
When the pandemic grounded the retreats, I learned to code and spent years inside crypto and tech companies, eventually finding my way into the secretive world of executive ghostwriting for technical founders to help builders say what they built.
Now I’m back at the writing desk.
BOOKS
Novels & Poetry
The God Pot — A wry trip through privilege and delusions of espionage. Read more →
Starseed Flux — A maintenance worker aboard a generation ship stumbles into a conspiracy that goes back to the ship’s founding. Read more →
Pants in the Tree — Thirty-four connected vignettes in which an aging widower pursues his wayward trousers. Read more →
Revolt in Steel Meadow (as Harlan Hunt, with Davo Roe) — What happens when a utopian energy source turns out to be something far darker. Read more →
On Writing & Attention
Deep Freewriting — The practice that transforms writing from struggle to flow. How to access the deeper currents that run beneath conscious thought. Read more →
Coming 2026
Cosmosis — In a space station where reality is gamified, a conversational app developer discovers the governing AI is playing a game of its own.
POTTERY
I throw mugs intended for daily use. The objects we live with carry more value when made by hand. The act of making something on the wheel is the same sustained attention I practice at the typewriter on the page. Each piece is a meditation on form and presence.
COACHING
Most writers don’t need more advice. They need someone who can hear what they’re reaching for and help them get there.
I work one-on-one with writers at every stage: first drafts and stalled novels, memoirs that feel too close to see clearly, projects that need a reader with depth. The same listening I brought to retreat work in Tuscany and Bali is what I bring to every session.
SUBSTACK
I write a weekly newsletter called TMMW (“To Map, Must Walk”) about the practice of making meaningful work in a commodified age.
Recent pieces:
- If Output Is Cheap, What Is Creativity Worth? — On typewriters and why the process is the point.
- You Did Something You Haven’t Yet Earned — What Doom Eternal taught me about the cost of severed connection.
“FIRST DRAFT FOREVER”
POV freewriting on a 1960s typewriter. Think of it as ambient writing — something to put on while you do your own work, or something to read closely.
New videos daily.
RETREATS
For years I led Writing Immersion Retreats in Italy, Bali, and the Caribbean — intimate gatherings of writers and artists working together in extraordinary places. Morning breathwork, afternoon critique, evening conversation. Everything designed to give you time, space, and structure to do the work that matters most to you.
Retreats are currently on pause as I plan the next chapter. If you’d like to be notified when new retreats are announced, join the mailing list.
“I cannot even begin to express how deeply moved I was. My novel was literally transformed in a day. I expected the block I had been feeling to go away, but I didn’t expect the floodgates of creativity to open as they did.” — Jennifer Sage
“The instruction was as hands-on or as hands-off as I needed it to be. Organic feedback — feedback that is productive without being critical, that enables the writer to evacuate their vacuum in a safe space.” — Rosemary
CONNECT
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