[My Leap Year is a 12-month life project (begun 11/01/07) at the end of which I intend to be writing full-time. 365 small steps = 1 giant leap.]

INTERVIEWS!

First I published a new Making Good column today over at ScrypticStudios.com, in which I interview comics writer Vito Delsante. Here’s a quick excerpt:

What’s the best advice you could give on the craft of writing?

Other than what I just said, I always give three pieces of advice:

1. Write what you know. Learn what you don’t.
2. If you’re given the opportunity to write a big name/franchise character, you have to treat it like your neighbor’s toy; you have to give it back the same way you got it.
3. Write every day. Because the writer you want to be? He’s writing right now.

Vito’s issue of Superman comes out tomorrow. Please join us in his “Help Sell Out SUPERMAN #676″ campaign.

Also, yesterday the Parable website posted an interview with yours truly. It delves into some of my personal beliefs, which you’ll generally find absent from this site because I’m more interested in contributing as an equal to the general dialogue taking place in entertainment and culture than I am in proselytizing. But I’m reminded of this observation about Grant Morrison by Warren Ellis, from the same interview I pointed you to last week:

[Grant's] a long-time practising magician who makes his art his magic; magic is a thing that demands a lot of your life, and Grant solves that by making the act of writing an act of magic.

It’s 100% true. One’s faith demands the same of any writer: it must be part of the work. Check out this interview if you want to see a little of how that works for me personally.