Creating New Characters: A Dialogue With My Muse
The Dialogue Open with me sitting on my ugly yellow sofa staring at my laptop, trying to create new characters. My muse sits on the back of the sofa, hunched…
Novelist with a full-time job.
Strategies For Being A Novelist With A Full-Time Job
GOOD NEWS! I recently became a full-time librarian :-)
My Break From Media (And How It Affected My Writing)
During the final week of July I took a break from news and entertainment media. I stopped watching YouTube, Netflix, Hulu and movies.
The Best Writing Advice I’ve Ever Gotten (While walking home from a college party.)
One night in college I was walking home from a party with one of my closest friends. We were both stone cold sober and it was before midnight (I had…
3 Types of Daily Writing Goals (and when to use them)
I have wanted to write this post for a while now and finally decided to just move it up in my schedule. As we all know setting and meeting daily…
2 Writing Exercises To Help You Through The Times We Are Living In
I'm not a medical professional. I don't want to give advice on how to sanitize your house or what to do if you get sick (other than call your doctor).…
8 1/2 Things I Learned at THRILLERFEST XIII
I attended THRILLERFEST XIII this past week, an annual writers' conference held in New York City that specializes in (wait for it) thrillers. Overall, this was a fantastic experience, one…
Why We Love It When Cute/Funny Characters Find Themselves in Horrifying Situations
With the recent premier of Stranger Things 2, I thought I'd take a moment to write about my favorite sub-genre. As far as I know it doesn't have an official…
Puppet show on brown background
My Sock Puppet Show Has Potental To Be More Culturally Significant Than Your Opera.
When I was in seventh grade one of our school librarians (the scary one) implied that the only comic book with any artistic merits was Maus by Art Spiegelman. …