I love this time of year. From a traditional, spiritual standpoint, we’re reaching the end of the anticipation of Advent and we are...

In Part One of the Write What You Know series, I talked a little bit about how limiting it can be if we take the advice offered by many...

A couple of big THANK YOUS going out today. First, to those of you who read this blog, and especially those of you who have clicked on...

A few weeks ago I posted this fine photo, compliments of internet friend, Kerry. (See more of her photography at her Caritas Photography...

Thanks to some fabulous Twitter folks and the Creative Writing MFA Blog, this has been a stellar week here on the Stories I Read, Stories...

If you’ve noticed, I’ve stopped numbering my Unblocker posts. If you are ever in need of a creative spark, the Unblocker prompts and...

As someone who is wrapping up my MFA studies (January is coming fast!) I’ve had several discussions, recently, about the pros and cons of...

Last year, I found a literary journal that provides the first line to the writer, and then picks the best submissions that begin with...

People ask about my process when they find out I’m a writer. “What does that look like? Do you sit at the computer all day?” Yes. Some...

I found this little darling while wandering the aisles of a flea market in Indiana a few years ago. I knew, at first glance, this is the...

Time for another video blog! This time, I’m focused, for just a few minutes, on the roles that desire and discipline play in our writing...

This is one of those blog posts that may be more for my own benefit than it is a post for you, the reader. (You can read it, though. I...

As of this week, I’ve recorded and shared FIVE installments of my video blog series, The Three Minute Writer. I’ve listed the five...

Sometimes we see a news story that causes the fiction writer in us to jump with anticipation. You know, a quirky story, buried somewhere...

Don’t take anything I’m about to say as an indictment of my wife or as an indication that I wasn’t thrilled that we had a summer vacation...

The Front Porch Journal is an online literary magazine published by Texas State University in San Marcos. They publish three or four...

As Albert King used to sing: Don’t be afraid come on in You might run across some of your old friends All your loneliness I gotta soothe...

[su_note](Editor’s Note: You can find even more posts about Dorothy Parker’s story, You Were Perfectly Fine, by checking out the Dorothy...

Wow. Unblocker #13, the Waffle House photo prompt, was a big hit. Thanks! I’d love to read some of the stories inspired by that photo, if...

[su_note](Editor’s Note: You can find even more posts about Dorothy Parker’s story, You Were Perfectly Fine, by checking out the Dorothy...