Words are magic.
I’m inspired by dancers–people with total control of their bodies, who can move in ways that I can only imagine. To me, dancing is a natural response to your environment and your emotions. Feeling something heavy? Dance it out. Feeling […]
[Using the below photograph as a prompt, I wrote the following short story.] So this is the new year.And I don’t feel any different.The clanking of crystalExplosions off in the distance. So this is the new yearAnd I have no […]
I decided to use today to reconnect and catch up with old friends. I hope you find some time to do the same during the holiday season. All best, Kate
TLDR: Well-written and clearly well-researched. I lost some interest toward the end though (the details get a little tedious) and skimmed the last 150 pages. All in all, a great story about an interesting page in our history. I do not […]
You’ve written your 50,000 words, you’ve re-read your manuscript a couple times, you’re all set to start querying agents, right? Or, if your aim is to self-publish, you’re ready to showcase your work to the world, right? Wrong. You might […]
Today’s blog is inspired by a short piece from the New York Times Book Review section. A couple of authors were asked “What are your nonliterary influences?” My favorite reply came from James Parker. He declared that comedians were some […]
TLDR: In sum, editing first (and second) drafts of a manuscript is all about making tough choices and sometimes you have to scrap hundreds of pages (like I did) and start over. In the words of Steven King, “Sometimes you […]
It all happened last week. Neil Gaiman stepped onto the stage of the Fitzgerald Theater amidst raucous applause and began bantering with the host of Wits, John Moe. He read some fairly funny scripted dialogue (in which he was a realtor selling a […]
First of all, please excuse my use of “social media” as a verb. It really shouldn’t be, but I’m afraid that’s what it’s turning into: an action. As in, “I’m just going to social media for a while before I […]
At the end of Stephan Eirik Clark‘s debut novel, Sweetness #9, I felt like eating some organic, small-batch sauerkraut. Clark’s book cleverly and thoughtfully dissects the ethics of food testing and the pressures of the capitalist free market in the […]