Writing in 2021 has afforded me pretty decent results. In 2019, I published “Waiting Room” on the website Midnight & Indigo. In 2020, I sold my story “Suffering Inside, but Still I Soar” to Flame Tree Press, and it was published this year in a physical anthology book that was distributed in the U.K., Canda […]
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Make Your Goals Like an Adult Film Star
Now that I have your attention… I know it’s only November, but I’m already knee-deep in planning for the New Year. I think it’s a common fallacy that we have to start working towards our goals at the start of January. We have our resolutions locked and loaded and as soon as ball drops at […]
What is a Plot Bunny? How to Slay Your Creative Ideas
It took me ten years to write Sailor Helga. I used to write Hey Arnold! fanfiction. By the time I retired in 2018, I had written over a dozen stories about that fictional kid with the football-shaped head. One story in particular took much longer to write than the others. It was a crazy crossover idea marrying my […]
Writer! Don’t Do it For the Money
When I was a child, my top 3 career choices were actor, writer, and mad scientist. After I realized the first and last option were probably not going to pan out, I put all my focus on becoming an author. In the 6th grade we had Career Day, and an actual author came to speak […]