Apr 29 2022
Lies (the diabolical kind) do real damage that will never be completely undone. We can heal, but are never the same.
A broken arm can mend and work just fine, but an X-ray will always show evidence of the break. We carry that fracture literally to our graves.
Apr 20 2022
Small steps are the most essential for achieving anything in life, yet they’re also the most underestimated. They are too easy to overlook or dismiss.
Apr 14 2022
Fiction filler is like fillers in food. It makes a little bit of good stuff go a lot farther, but at what cost? How much of this pink slime prose can we really get away with before readers feel ill?
Apr 06 2022
Literary larceny is a new ‘trend’ that is normalizing stealing from authors. Stealing from authors—or anyone for that matter—is NOT okay.
Apr 05 2022
Memory is what makes paper-doll characters come to life. Too many new writers stop at surface description.
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