Wow, I can’t believe it’s another Phreaky Friday already. TGIPF, right? Or any kind of Friday for that matter. And if you work an off-shift and today is your Wednesday (or God forbid, your MONDAY)…well, I’m sorry. But the rest of us are freaking PUMPED. (You can laugh at us next week.) So the other […]
I love hosting fellow writers on my blog, particularly when they have some usable advice for the rest of us. Lately I have been contemplating that leap of faith most serious writers will consider at least once in their lives. I’ve reached Frost’s celebrated divergence in the woods; down one road, corporate servitude and that […]
Today is one of those days—you know the ones. The bad anniversaries. As humans we have this quaint habit of putting a date on everything so that we can remember it later. Wedding anniversaries top the list. Birthdays—the anniversary of our own birth into this big, wonderful world. New relationships have the lovestruck one week, […]
One of the compliments I get most often in my never ending quest for glory and immortality is: “Wow! You are so creative!” Well, my friends, I’m going to let you in on a secret: I’m not very creative. In fact…you are every bit as creative as me, or more so! Some of you more […]
As I prepare to release the second book in my Clan of MacAulay series this weekend, I had occasion to think a bit about “serial” novels and what I love about them. My first book, Black Beast, introduced my recurring protagonist, Detective Robert Macaulay (better known as Bobby Mac). Mac was always in my mind. […]
There may not be a Santa Claus, dear Virginia, but the good news is he was never going to put good dialogue skills in your stocking anyway. So who needs him? A few posts back, I talked about the importance of quality dialogue in our writing. I mentioned a dialogue-only short story I wrote on […]
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