About
Steve Sklar — Writer?
(Not putting the rest of this page in the third person. Steve this, Steve that. Not gonna do that.)
I’ve been doing what I guess you could call creative writing on and off at least since I was in my twenties. Got some stuff published — several pieces on skiing in Powder Magazine in the late 70s/early 80s, several film biz articles in Variety ten years later, then more recently a couple of essays in The Threepenny Review. But I never quite committed to writing as my main gig.
There was a moment in my youth when I took a little time to see if I might be … A Writer. I was, as they say, between jobs, possibly even collecting unemployment. I went out and bought me a big, used, but really quite nice, oak table to use as a desk. Wheeled it home on a dolly about half a mile from the place where I’d picked it up to the Brooklyn apartment I shared with roommates. Because if you’re going to be A Writer you need a proper writing surface. Nice writing table, ample time to write. And I noticed that, mostly, I didn’t write. Oh well.
And so there’ve been the day jobs. For the past 31 years, immigration lawyer. Before that, film and video crew member — video editor, video special effects animator, production assistant on a couple of features, each film worse than the next.
But here’s the thing. At a low frequency over the years since that oak table and I went our separate ways I have continued writing. Lately I feel more like a writer than ever, if not A Writer committed to supporting himself, let alone his family, that way. But still, writing.
In any event, here come these pieces. Enjoy.
