I am currently working on a short story collection for an upcoming book release. I’ve cobbled together some short stories already published on Literary Juice and elsewhere as well as some brand spanking new short stories to send chills up my reader’s spine. However, one short story has really been tough to write, and IContinue reading “3 Reasons We Get Bored With Our Own Plot”
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School Begins and Writing Continues
Today I am attending yet another in-service meeting to begin the teaching year and I’m completely ready to start the year. It looks like a good year this year even though our legislature is populated with tons of anti-education dogs, our governor thinks we are all slugs, and money is (as always) tight. Of courseContinue reading “School Begins and Writing Continues”
Genre Blending
I’ve been reading a lot of different things lately in between writing my own stuff. Namely, I’ve been working my way through Thomas Harris’s Hannibal series. The first book, Red Dragon, was a masterful suspense journey that kept me guessing and even though I had seen many of the film incarnations of the novels, terrified meContinue reading “Genre Blending”
New Podcast Up: Road to Memphis Part One
In this special episode (excuse the road noise) Ryan and I decide to go to Memphis Tennesee on a road trip. On the way there we discuss the stories we leave behind. What stories have you started but never finished or had to abandon simply because they didn’t work? What do those abandoned stories teach us? We alsoContinue reading “New Podcast Up: Road to Memphis Part One”
Why Being a Novelist and Being a Teacher Sometimes Doesn’t Mix
I’ve been an English teacher for over 16 years and I’ve technically been a novelist for about 5 of those years. I’ve been running this blog now for over two and half years, and I can tell you that doing all of this is really taxing. Right now I am in beautiful Louisville, Kentucky atContinue reading “Why Being a Novelist and Being a Teacher Sometimes Doesn’t Mix”
New Podcast Up: Short Story Writing and Invested Characters
In this episode Ryan and I discuss the writing of short stories and how you can use short stories to wet your appetite for writing a novel. How many of your short stories could eventually become novels? How do you translate a short story into a novel? We also discuss characters in fiction that cause usContinue reading “New Podcast Up: Short Story Writing and Invested Characters”
Writing Is Hard Work 