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A few times per week, I offer unsolicited writing advice to anyone who will listen. Sometimes, I even follow it myself. When I was in college, I once had a creative writing workshop teacher kick off her semester by making a list of things we were not allowed to write about. She was a graduate …
Continue reading Writing Quick Tip #3 – No Topic is Off Limits
One of my favorite things to do is edit work I wrote years ago, just to see how I would change it now that I have a little more life experience and editorial knowledge. I wrote the following piece for Tremr.com about three years ago, but I still think it's kind of funny. I gave …
A few times per week, I offer unsolicited writing advice to anyone who will listen. Sometimes, I even follow it myself. If you ask me, 'Who is your favorite character in your novel, The Broken Haven?' you might be surprised to learn the answer. It's not my good-natured, modern day Alice-in-Wonderland, Eleanor, and it's not my dashing …
Continue reading Writing Quick Tip #2 – For the Love of Villains
Someone, somewhere, at some point in my life, once told me that it is possible to be a full-time writer and not starve. And once I heard that, there was no looking back. I want to thank this person. I also want to punch them, because now I am cursed. There's no convincing me that …
A few times per week, I offer unsolicited writing advice to anyone who will listen. Sometimes, I even follow it myself. Tip #1 - Score your book. No, I don't mean give it a rating from 1-10. I'm suggesting you do a little digging on Spotify, or Amazon Music, or iTunes, or whatever your preferred …
"The Date", a shorty story by Sarah Galyean Jones In less than three days, thanks to a rave review in the New York Times, Café Luca had gone from hole-in-the-wall to line-out-the-door. It had taken me over an hour just to get a table, but that was okay, because Henry was late and I had …
Hello, everyone. I've been incredibly busy lately, what with my book coming out in less than twenty days (HOLY MOLY, IT'S FINALLY HERE) and revisions of the new book and working on short stories for my fiction class and also forcing myself to trudge through all of the other academic work on my agenda so …
