So, you have an idea for a story – maybe it’s just an idea for a set-up or an emotional payoff at the end, and you have to get the reader from your brilliant first sentence to your brilliant last sentence somehow. You need a plot. You can’t just come Read more…
Subtitle: Why I don’t use word counts as a measure of productivity. Knitting is awesome. If I follow the pattern, I end up with a sweater. EVERY TIME. I just start at the beginning and go to the end. Many people think writing is like knitting. They expect to start Read more…
No illustrated blog post this week. I’m back in the hospital AGAIN. Being a languishing waif is nowhere near as romantic as I was lead to believe.
I’ll be reading at Euclid Beach Park, May 30th at 12:15pm, as part of the kick-off celebration for the Lakefront Literacy Project. Books on the Beach! Yay! Oh hey – here’s their indigogo page: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/books-on-the-beach-the-lakefront-literacy-project
It is with pride that I can honor a great American, a great Ohioan, on this Memorial Day. My short story, “Zombie Hitler Vs. Neil Armstrong” has been purchased by British publication Ponokitsch. Yes, the story is pretty much exactly what the title would suggest. No, Pornokitsch is a family-friendly Read more…
My older sister Terri and her friends put on a variety show in the loft over our garage one summer. The skits were, of course, all the most sophisticated humor. But best of all, the older kids let Grace and me join in. Because I was six whole minutes younger Read more…
Fellow Cajun Sushi Hamster Tobias Buckell decided to host a writing workshop at the college where he worked. He invited an editor to lead it and got six or so aspiring authors like myself to attend. I was the only girl, which made me very nervous. I submitted a story I’d Read more…