Bold title. “Everyone”? Yes, everyone. You’ll see why soon, depending on your reading speed and my ability to keep your interest. The...

My first blog was titled "GCSPrank Is Here" and it relates to my college years and beyond in Mississippi and other places. After the...

Wrote this one for an SFNovelists Short Story Contest in 1998. The theme was "What will life be like 50 years from now?" I thought of the...

[I often start stories seeing just a single image or thinking of one sentence. This one on came about after reading the description of a...

Like a ton of writers, which could be from 6-20 if one wants to be pedantic about it and it seems I chose to be, I struggle with sitting...

If you are a writer, or want to be, you must have a steady reading habit. Don’t take my word for it: Stephen King says the same thing...

That is the third cliché this page. Are you really a writer? “Shut up.” You call that characterization? You’re making that guy as flat as...

I picked it up because the paperback had a bright red cover with a dragon on it. It was right next to A Game of Thrones in that...

I can hear one of you saying: “But there are more than five science fiction books worth reading twice!” I understand that, Reader Who...

Golfers avoid saying “shank”. During a no-hitter, the team whose pitcher is flirting with history refuses to acknowledge what is...

How to Effectively Take Criticism About Your Writing Without Turning Around and Making the Idiot Who Dared Savage Your Precious Prose the...

You have had this experience: the novel you are reading throws a ton of invented names at you like a blizzard, makes up words for common...

If you’ve been known as a writer among more than two persons for at least 19 minutes, you have been asked: “Where do you get your ideas?”...

I am assuming you are a writer, or want to be. If you have yet to launch yourself into the darkness called writing, and have been putting...

Jason is a bright young man who can draw brilliantly. He has an intuitive grasp of perspective and framing that lends itself well to...

Ponder Sisyphus. Doomed to push a massive boulder up a steep hill, only to have it roll down again. Every time. Every. Time. What’s that...

I know people who think that being a writer is easy. They are idiots. I say that because if they had ever tried to actually be a writer,...

The best sports writing, in terms of depth and lyricism, focuses on baseball and golf. Neither sport is known for its non-stop action,...

Because if we don’t write, we don’t feel complete. Because writing gives us satisfaction like nothing else does. Because writing is a...

No podemos eliminar las cárceles. Madres adolescentes son demasiado jóvenes para cuidar bien a sus bebés. Los drogadictos son ejemplos...