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During the COVID Pandemic of 2020, I made the brave choice to give up on writing freelance assignments. One of the main reasons I did so was because I felt the color draining from my writing. The grind of churning out what felt like grayscale articles daily took a toll on my sense of creative…
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Often, I ponder how many incredible ideas end up falling through the cracks over the years. How many great ideas, including pitches for manuscripts that never get written that could be mind-altering and life changing, are lost forever because they got caught in a waste-bin or spam filter? I wonder how many great writing careers…
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Even in elementary school, I felt that reading comprehension tests were little more than exercises in restating the obvious. These tests often seemed to measure little more than our ability to regurgitate facts and details rather than allowing us to truly engage with the material. For me, the sign of good writing is if you…
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After taking a couple weeks, which have been quite hectic behind the scenes, to rethink my online presence, I have decided to stop posting regularly on this website. I will instead be creating PDF collections of my past work, as well as creating new ones over time, as I am still writing quite a bit…
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What’s the best way to write fiction? Or, to write anything for that matter? It’s one word at a time. But, it’s difficult to express complete thoughts in single words. So, then, we must string these words into sentences. These sentences will form paragraphs. Hopefully, these paragraphs then form a coherent narrative upon the page…
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Back in the 2010’s, I thought I had cracked the code of content creation. I was on the verge of discovering a magical formula that could make every digital platform I managed hum like a well-tuned engine and purr out endless streams of growth. It’s kind of like those overly optimistic baseball fans – including…
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Is a fictitious work actually ever just fiction? Once the words unfold a scene and characters come to life in your mind’s eye, is it any longer only fiction? If a work is truly memorable, then it becomes part of your life experience. It then becomes much more than fiction because it morphs into part…
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Writing is a shape-shifting beast. You can be “good” at it in a dozen different forms and still feel like you’re chasing your own tail. For years, I fancied myself the next great novelist — imagining a future where my name graced the bestsellers list, sandwiched between the latest dystopian romance and whatever Stephen King…
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How to Turn Your Harshest Judge into Your Biggest Writing Ally We all have an inner critic when it comes to our writing. Even the most experienced authors spend time questioning their work before submitting it or putting it out into the world. This little voice in your head can be both helpful and harmful…
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Why is it that we writers often find ourselves at the bottom of the corporate food chain? It’s almost as if the world collectively decided that writing is some kind of frivolous hobby. It’s like stamp collecting, but without the hope of ever striking gold with a rare find falling into our hands. No, writing…