I’ve been mulling over a pattern I’ve noticed: my work that has received the highest praise from readers is work in which I wrote about,...

Lately I’ve been thinking about the importance of finding beta readers, readers who are right for you.  For the most part I’ve had w...

As I mentioned last week , I’ve been overly concerned with what others think about my work, letting it paralyze me at times. This week I...

It’s said that, at the end of life, what haunts us ISN’T the things we did but the things we didn’t do.  We can’t do everything in t...

Until recently I didn’t deal well with stress. Also, I wasn’t well-organized. (Stories, yes; life in general, no.) Then I read “ Getti...

Secret Keeping And Patricia Highsmith Last week I binged on Patricia Highsmith’s work. Specifically, “Strangers on a Train” and “T...

Years ago I watched a reality TV show that chronicled Jamie Oliver’s (at times desperate) attempts to teach a group of unambitious youth t...

Let’s talk about getting motivated to write. That’s something I’m having trouble with at present. That’s the bad news. The good news...

After The Accident I needed to get my mind off my (extremely minor) physical maladies so I re-subscribed to World of Warcraft (WoW) afte...

Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings.  — Stephen Kin...