Literary Anxiety
Photo by tableatny. Used with Creative Commons license. Edits by Jonny Eberle. My year is off to a running start (creatively, at least). The end of January is busy for most writers of short prose,...
View ArticleNo-Good, Rotten Liars Like Me
“Writers are liars, my dear, surely you know that by now? And yet, things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes,...
View ArticleThe Magic of Deadlines
I have heard rumors in my travels of creative people who are entirely self-motivated. They get up early, awakened by an innate drive to create, go to their computers, ignore Facebook and Google, and...
View ArticleNew Short Story: Bad Air and Bitter Herbs
Sometime in late April, I fell down a rabbit hole of links learning about the history of the plague in Europe. It was a dark impulse in the middle of a modern-day pandemic, but I became fascinated by...
View ArticleThe Clear Light of Morning, New Year’s Day
It’s 7:30 am on New Year’s Day. Morning dawns cold and clear and silver over the snow that still blankets the roads and rooftops in our neighborhood. I am in the nursery, trying to coax a...
View ArticleNew Short Story: Victorious
I’m pleased to share that I have a new short story published this month on Creative Colloquy’s website. It’s a piece of flash fiction written in response to artist Steve LaBerge’s installation...
View ArticleHow I Finished the First Draft of My Novel
Photo by Ana Arantes on Pexels.com Way back in November, while insanely sleep-deprived while caring for a one-month-old, I made a fateful—and you might say crazy—decision: I decided to take a crack at...
View ArticleHow to Write When You Don’t Have the Time or Energy to Write
Don’t get me wrong, I love to write. Creative projects fill my proverbial cup. But sometimes, I just don’t have the time to devote to the practice of writing, or when I do have the time, I can’t...
View ArticleThe Brutal, Delicate Art of Revision (Revised)
In my very first writing class in high school, my teacher once told us that “all writing is rewriting.” For some reason, I was certain that rule didn’t apply to me. All of my fiction was perfect from...
View ArticleYear in Review: 2023 Edition
Another year has come and gone. On this New Year’s Eve, a time when we traditionally take stock of our selves, I want to turn an eye on this website—and offer a peek behind the curtain. I’ve been...
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