Why Is It So Difficult To Write Well?

I’m nearly halfway through the backstory material for my current WIP.  I’m writing a series of books tentatively titled The Five Rims Series and try as I might, I’m going to create a Tolkienesque place, a (most likely) vain attempt to give my setting a richness that will hopefully translate to a sweeping epic.  I’m just

New Podcast Up: Choosing a Creative Writing Course Near Gotham

In this episode we discuss the pros and cons of taking a creative writing class and what a budding writer should look for in such a class. This all comes from an article in “The Guardian” that claims that creative writing classes may be killing western literature. Not sure about that… But heaven knows we’ve