Let’s talk about longevity for a moment.
Usually, when writers start the daydream wheel in their minds, I’d wager that critical, financial and popular success figure prominently in the results, but I wonder sometimes how far in advance we think when building our hoped-for futures. Sure, a best-selling, critically respected book would be a great [...]

Sometimes you don’t know what you want to say until you open your mouth, and out it comes. I wasn’t planning to write something tonight; it’s been a busy weekend, and I’ve got lots to do. But, I was trolling the news sites, and I saw a blurb saying that Frank McCourt, the fellow who [...]

The Epic Winners of the Epic Poetry Contest
We’ve got to hand it to those of you who entered the Epic Poetry Contest: you’ve accomplished something just by finishing. This was a hard one to complete, with some stringent rules to follow and requiring some serious vocabulary and imagination. We want to give you [...]

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession. ~ Robert Frost
It’s possible to become rich as a novelist, though few manage it. It’s possible to make a good living doing a number of different types of writing, although to paraphrase a line from Elmore Leonard, the kind of writing that pays the [...]

For creative non-fiction more ’serious’ than blogging, I generally don’t like to use the first person. It’s harder to be objective, and any observations you make about yourself are obviously biased, and therefore less likely to be taken seriously. That’s how I rationalize it, anyway, I’m not sure the real reason.
My favorite short memoir pieces [...]