I find I’m much better at pointing out what I don’t like about works than what I do. It’s why I never liked to do workshops. I like the feedback but when it comes to giving others feedback, all I can think of is the story is really good. As a writer, it’s nice to…
“Change means that what was before wasn’t perfect. People want things to be better.” Esther Dyson Through years of fiction writing, I’ve learned if you are willing to change something in a story then it needs to be changed. Take character names. If you’re willing, without hesitation, to change a character’s name than the name…
In 2007, I spent a semester abroad at Kingston University in England. During Reading Week, which is a week long mid-semester break, a group of friends and I backpacked across Italy for about 8 or 9 days. It was amazing! More fun than I had ever had and truly inspirational and magnificent. We flew Ryanair…
Below is an excerpt of one of my short stories. I’ll post these morsels every other Wednesday. The wind was violent, invading. Its hands, it had so many abrasive hands, slipped beneath clothes to scrap bare skin. No privacy existed between me and it. The wooden bridge was empty but I wasn’t alone. The wind…
“The real voyage of discovery consists of not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” I”v lived in Brooklyn for nearly two years, not that long, and spend a lot of time in the city (Manhattan). Some places, in the city, I avoid because tourist are never in as much a hurry…
“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities, against power, against the rulers of the darkness of the world, against spiritual wickedness in high places” I’m fascinated by darkness. It’s not just the dark side of human nature that ensnares me but physical darkness as well. I love nighttime. How delectable it…
The written word is my weakness. I adore writers like Edgar Allen Poe and H.P. Lovecraft who uses language so beautifully. I am a writer, currently unpublished, and a lover of horror and dark fantasy. I’ve been thinking too must about what I want the blog to say. It’s time to dive in. “Security is…
