How To Write a Short Story
“It is the tale, not he who tells it.” – Stephen King Several years ago, I set myself to write a new story each week. The pandemic came along, which was a spanner in the works, but I…
I Challenged Myself To Write 52 Bad Stories a Year
Early in my writing career, when it was still novel and I was uncommitted, I decided that the solution for the constant, unending, and formulaic rejection of my brilliant ideas would be to shorten the stories. What I…
The Politics of Writing Contests
A few years ago I learned a lesson obvious in hindsight yet difficult to foresee. The nature of this lesson, an instruction in fairness, is inseparable from the circumstance in which I learned it. I am appreciative of…