Everyone has one story worth telling. Their own lives. It has been said every writer writes only what they know. We know our own lives...

Garden writers. Scaffold builders. Unstructured writers. Discovery writers. Plotters. Pantsers. Architects. Designers. There are as many...

There are 86,400 seconds in a day. 24 hours X 60 minutes x 60 seconds = 86,400. I’m a normal human being… I sleep 8 hours. 28,800 seconds...

Neuroplasticity. Emotional Intelligence. Creativity. Empathy. These are all considered good things to have. I can’t think of the last...

Dialogue can let time pass slowly, quickly, or in a manner which is indeterminate. In general, when we are trying to show, and not tell,...

Yesterday’s mistakes are yesterday’s. They belong there, in the past, a reminder of what we did wrong, and why we need to do better. They...

Technically, Dribbles and Drabbles. The history of short, short supper short literature is not new. The legendary story popularly...

I would like you to go grab your phone, and see how many contacts you have. I’ll wait here. How many are friends? Family? Coworkers?...

In our world people are often arguing about the native casualties and who is to blame on thanksgiving for the atrocities of our past....

I do not know if you have ever read out loud to yourself. If you haven’t you should. Even the articles you read on your phone, though...

I started to think about this question today when it was pointed out that my wife and I own more books than we can read in the remainder...

Let’s express one idea five ways. 1) “I’m going to the store,” said Jane. 2) “I’m going to the store, Jane said. 3) Jane...

Good evening. I am very excited to say that each month, there will now be science fiction and fantasy short stories published on this...

An unfortunate aspect of movies sharing a dominant space with literature is that the worst of the film industry has a tendency to bleed...

Happy new year! Today is Nov 8. Why am I saying happy new year? Chinese New Year is the festival that celebrates the beginning of a new...

I do not read very many biographies. I read none in my youth, and only began to entertain reading them when I was about 30. Now, though I...

Dialogue must belong to the speaker. This can mean almost anything once the author has established a character, but it encompasses...

This is not a video game reference. It is instead trying to pull together the ideas in this short series into what I call the doom loop....

I think there is a balance in the creative act between creating what we as creators want to see, read, hear, experience versus what...

Humans are an interactive group. We love to talk. Dialogue in real life serves as one of our primary windows into other people’s...