Writing BIPOC (black, indigenous, people of color), diverse characters can be challenging. I love personality and infusing personality traits into […]
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While I was in the spirit of the holidays, I sat down recently and decided to watch The Man Who […]
Impostor Syndrome can be defined as a collection of feelings of inadequacy that persist despite evident success. For many people I […]
Recently I have been more public about my depression, and maybe it’s because it’s becoming more of an every day […]
Do you know the story of Icarus? Better yet, do you know the song from Kansas: Icarus – Borne on […]
“Woman must come of age by herself…She must find her true center alone.” ― Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea When […]
I heard about The Midnight Library at the end of 2020 by the Goodreads Choice Awards, in which this book […]
When a writer develops a plot point that includes battling seven incarnations of the rock legend Prince, you either have […]
I’m a respectable 5′ 4″. There are many of us that walk around in this cute, little package, people like […]
A few years ago I took a short story class. I hadn’t written short stories in a while, I find […]
I usually never participate in thankful posts. Reason, well, I’m thankful every day. I say “Thank you” on a daily […]
….this book. Have you ever had a book you can’t recover from? That in its genesis there are slivers that […]
My copy of Strange the Dreamer I snuck in with me in the ER after an allergic reaction to a wasp sting
The threads of stories often come in the weirdest places in our lives. For me, I’ve often been inspired by dreams.
The first heard the word “ennui” in the movie, A Simple Twist of Fate, one of Steve Martin’s more serious […]