My writing work is and has been all over the place. Novels, stories, poems, television scripts, plays, journalism, corporate writing-for-hire, speeches, video, ad copy and taglines, blog posts, comedy, drama, documentary. That's how it's been for the better part of fifty years, and most of it has been just enough fun not to want to do much else. Oh, except crossword puzzles. One doesn't write a puzzle, one "constructs" it - that's a key difference - but a puzzle is about the smallest, most rigidly-defined space where words rule, and it is enormously satisfying to do them well enough so they appear in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and other places. Most of them (so far) have been themeless, end-of-week puzzles. The hard ones, inciting the wrath of solvers everywhere.
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This is not my boat. I like sailing on other
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I suffered from itchy feet as a teenager, and only recently stopped racing around the country wanting to live in different places - Connecticut, Florida, Vermont, Georgia, Washington state, New Mexico, and now Maine. My wife Carla (she designed String Theories) and I have driven through the entire country, several times. She has 50 states under her wheels, I have 49. And so it was time to settle down, four years ago, when we bought a piece of land on a tidal river here in midcoast Maine, designed and built our own house, garage, guest cabin, garden shed, greenhouse. We've landed in the right place.
You can reach me at nedwhite, followed by the number 2, then an "at" sign, then gmail with a dot and finally a com.
You can reach me at nedwhite, followed by the number 2, then an "at" sign, then gmail with a dot and finally a com.