I’ve been home from vacation for almost two weeks and it’s been…tough. For several reasons: Horrible eye strain Mood swings Thoughts on mortality Attempting to juggle multiple outlines for new projects while thinking about a WIP I’m almost done with My mom, who is ill The end of July to …
The title of this really says it all. I listen to a lot of shit when I’m working out at the gym, walking around the neighborhood, or driving someplace. Often times, when I’m thinking of a scene, a collection of scenes, or the general tone of story I’m working on, …
Last year I wrote a post detailing my early years as a writer and the sense of entitlement I illogically and undeservedly harbored. A lot has happened since then and I felt it not exactly necessary but perhaps semi-cathartic to write something functioning as a reflection on and an addendum …
A huge part of my writing takes place in my head (duh). What I mean by that is imagining the world in which my stories take place. One of the ways I do this is by roughing out the images that come to mind. Sometimes it’s part of the story, …
April is almost at its end. It’s been a whirlwind year for me thus far. So here I am in Spain. It’s almost 1:30 a.m. I feel…calm. So I’m going to reflect on things I feel have been the most important or impactful to me in the last few months. …
As I’m preparing to write the next blog post about my honeymoon in Europe, I decided to pause and share the following: the different opening paragraphs to SHADOW TWINS, starting from the very first draft when the story was titled THE FORGER. When I first started writing this I was …
*Written March 2nd, 2018 I have absolutely nothing against general literary fiction. I have read many fantastic stories in that category (The Silver Linings Playbook, The History of Love, The Hours, just to name a few), but genre fiction is what has always resonated with me. Why? Escapism. The ability to …
*Written February 22nd, 2018 The publishing industry is huge. When you factor in small presses and indie (self-) publishing it gets a whole lot bigger. For many writers, new or seasoned, this can be a bit overwhelming: with so many books out there, it’s far too easy to wonder who’s …
*Written January 26th, 2018 Over the last year and a half I’ve received a decent number of rejection letters from agents and magazine editors. The one thing they had in common? Personalization. Information, comments on the story and its characters, especially from editors. There was a consistency in rejection that …
*Written January 25th, 2018 When news broke a couple of days ago my first reactions were shock and disbelief. Surely I had misread the title of that article. But as I lingered on it, reality set in and I was hit with an overwhelming wave of sadness and sorrow. I …