Guest Post – Brendan O'Hallarn and His Writing Space

Three years ago, I was working as a reporter for WYDaily, the online newspaper for whom I write White Knuckles, a weekly column about my life as an overwhelmed dad of two.

On a crisp October morning, I was out walking the haunted streets of Colonial Williamsburg long before dawn. The Today Show was doing its series on battleground states during the 2008 election, and chose to do its show live from CW that day. The town was abuzz.

As a hustling, underdog paper, WYDaily sent me out to do a live b...