Proud to be part of Orlando charity zine “Our Hearts Still Beat”
I am excited to let you know that my poem “Glorious” is featured in Our Hearts Still Beat Issue 1, an uplifting charity zine by Margins Publishing to […]
Writing
Three Things You Love (About Your Writing) 4 comments
I want to know three things you love about your writing (or about whatever your creative pursuit is). Not what other people love about what […]
Weekly Writer’s Check In: Everyone Welcome! 6 comments
Welcome, writers to our first check in for November and the home stretch of the 2015 writing year. Its also our first check in of […]
How to Make a Horror Movie 1 comment
Just in time for Halloween, enjoy this tongue-in-cheek flow chart showing how to make a horror movie from Canal+: Click on image for larger version […]
The Defining Moment 3 comments
“Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who […]
Ray Bradbury on How To Get Things Done
INTERVIEWER: How important has your sense of optimism been to your career? BRADBURY: I don’t believe in optimism. I believe in optimal behavior. That’s a […]
Title Tip: Negative Brainstorming
Make a list of of the most horribly on-the-nose titles that you can think of. Make them as painfully bad as you possibly can. List […]
A Good Beginning Holds the Story’s Ending
Clark Blaise in his essay “To Begin, To Begin” (to be found in the book How Stories Mean, edited by John Metcalf ) puts forward […]
Junot Díaz on Worldbuilding 2 comments
Some things to consider always when taking on a new world: What are its primary features—spatial, cultural, biological, fantastic, cosmological? What is the world’s ethos […]
