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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 …
In the past few months, I think I've counted maybe thirteen different articles floating around the internet about how to treat introverts. Lists of reasons why introverts don't want to hang out with me, and what it is that introverts need in their lives, and how staying in on a Friday night is actually an …
