I wish it wasn’t so cliché to say, but I’ve been a writer all my life. My career started with stapled pieces of sketch paper on which I wrote tales of cats befriending aliens. Hell, I even illustrated them, because I was that passionate. Continue reading
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Memes for the Writer’s Readers
Yeah. Wrap your mind around that title.
This morning was great. Chris woke me up with a candlelight breakfast–golden eggs–and I asked him sweetly if he planned on reading the chapter I sent last night. Continue reading
A Classic Argument Between Writers
“Wow, I just read your passage. Your work makes me want to set mine on fire.”
“What? My work sucks!” Continue reading
The Stairs
A stairwell.
It was not the wood, or the way sand was ground in some areas, shells within others that had intrigued me so. It wasn’t the way the wood changed as the stairs went higher, from beached, to oak, to birch, to cherry, the shapes of bird feet and sunflowers lining each stage as if it were built for my feet and my feet alone. Continue reading
How to Not Suck at Writing
I was feeling pretty good about myself again, you know, that whole “writer’s streak” when all of your “readers” are telling you:
“This is it! This is your magnum opus! The apple pie of all pies! The cirrus cloud among all of your cumulonimbus anvils!” Continue reading
