Separation Anxiety

I was talking with fellow writer and friend, Nico Taranovsky, about separation between the writer and the character. Sometimes there isn’t a lot of it. The closer we are to our character, the harder it becomes to write that character. It is like self-marketing. A lot...

The Tragedy Trap

A teacher (I don’t remember where I heard this, unfortunately) once defined fiction as “bad things happening to interesting people.” Nothing could be truer. There is, however, a caveat to note, one of scale: the bad thing must be proportionate to the...

Split

Why write a particular story? What compels an author to pursue a certain tale over every other possibility? I am not certain I could satisfactorily answer that question for most of my stories. I would probably say things like this is what interested me at the time. Or...
For Your Amusement

For Your Amusement

To Sleep or To Write: Funny how the hand keeps moving after the eyes have closed.

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