

Dreams of What?
Recently during a Twitter pitch party. I posted a 145-character tweet to stand in for the 60,000 words that are the product of the last...


Dystopia Now!
We live in a world where things have been wrong for so long they are now commonplace. The list of the horrors that plague modern society...


Beta Time
Does anyone else do this other than me? I have my latest book ready for beta readers. So, I design, format, and print them as paperbacks...


Plot Wormholes
Too often I have seen books where this happens to a character, the barrier to their achieving a goal has an easy solution the author...


"Thank a Tank" or My Life as a Meat Shield
Welcome fellow Meat Shields. Now some may object to that term but we meat shields have long held important and necessary position in the...


A Day in the Life of an Aspiring Writer
6:00 AM wake early to get XXaXlotXXXXaXgreatXdealXX (heaps?)of quality writing done in the peace and quiet of the early morning hours....


Shadow Banning - Social Media and the Illusion of Free Speech
Today I did some research on a practice called shadow banning. This is something many of the social media sites do to filter what they...


He Said, Said He
Why does the advice to "Only ever use 'said' as a dialogue tag" tempt me to write a story whose main characters have the last name Said?...


Growth
My writing has shown improvement since I began, We all get better with practice, but you have to start somewhere. A tree will not grow...


I'm Contest Winner!
Looks like I won a contest for my flash fiction piece in celebration of the life and work of British author Douglas Adams, My 42 word...