How far would you go to create a character? Have you ever pretended to be that character, speaking in his voice? Walking around the room the way he walks to get a feel for those motions before you try to put them into words? Journaling as that character to better...
Midwestern Gothic runs profiles of its authors. You can get to know them along with reading their works. My story, “Creatures,” is in issue 10, and here is my profile at midwestgothic.com. Find out about Henry Humbug and who I’d have coffee with....
I am so excited to announce that “The Herd” has been accepted by Water~Stone Review for the 2013 issue. Let me tell you about “The Herd.” In August of 2010, Scott and I took the kids camping near Taylor’s Falls. We went to the beach at Lake O’ the Dalles in...
Fiction Depot is a great new resource for writers and readers of fiction developed by Gary Smith, a writer I have had the pleasure to work with at Hamline University and beyond. Fiction Depot is a new form of literary hub–a site devoted to readers and...
We writers lead the solitary life, slaving over character motivation and semi-colons in our dark monastic cells. But once a year we emerge, stretch the kinks out of our writing hands, straighten the writer’s hunch-back, and convene at AWP (the Association of Writers...
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