I’m a writer, editor, and website manager in Portland, Oregon. Recent doings, clips, and other stuff:
- My last name is a little hard to spell.
- I had a piece called “Principles of Cost-Effective Candy Extraction” in McSweeney’s.
- From time to time I write for an online magazine named The Nervous Breakdown.
- Stuff I’ve written for O’Reilly Media (That’s Tim O’Reilly, not Baba O’Reilly, or Bill O’Reilly)
- I wrote about a solar highway project for the Oregon Department of Transportation was the cover story Rebuilding America’s Infrastructure
- I co-authored this feature in Roads and Bridges on a road project in central Oregon with wildlife tunnels.
- My attempt to write the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels (a.k.a. the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest) — anthologized in a book.
- Speaking of books, a link to the incredibly obscure academic book I coauthored a long time ago
- I wrote a newspaper column for four years. Many of my old columns are still online, thanks to the Internet Archive. See The Ethernaut page for more.
E-mail me: johnochwat <at> gmail
howdy, good to see that the ochwat wit (try saying that fast) is being put out on the wires. what do you do to stimulate the imagination? go to vegas? what is it about travel that stimulates the writing gene? i have never written more than when i did my 16,000 km journey after law…now there always seems to be something distracting happening…such as organising the bbq for this friday’s primary school disco – how more cerebral can i get? i’ve started setting myself photo assignments to get me out taking photos – again the best time to get out and about is either witching hour or “get ready for school” hours…i thinki need a full time job. good to hear from you…
Hi John,
Thanks for your interesting comment about tracking rejections over at ‘We The Bistro.’ It lead me to your blog. I love it! Lots of fun little diversions.
Good luck to you!
Chris R.
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