I’m an incredibly fast eater. It happens to those of us who have had to eat in a rush. I won’t even sit down. I’ll hold my plate with one hand and eat with the other. It’s not attractive, I know, but it’s what I do. Even when I slowContinue Reading
I pinched this one from Biblioklept. I feel like I’m always mired in step one.Continue Reading
Here’s a copy of the zine I made for my Front Range Community College workshop “The Writer and the Literary Press.” If you don’t know how a zine works, please see this tutorialContinue Reading
A few months back I picked up Sinclair Lewis’s book Main Street. I really have no real reason why I did this. It’s an old book and for some reason I feel or perhaps I felt, I should read this book. Who knows? I’ve read all sorts of books becauseContinue Reading
I made a bunch of these recently and what fun. Here’s the tutorial I found most helpful.Continue Reading
Objective: Provide a basic understanding of the writer’s relationship to literary magazines with a focus on the online journal. Knowing many young writers want to published, this brief instructional will walk through the process. Ice breaker: Q: Why write? (A: Short Stories were made of magazines.) Q: Why publish? (A:Continue Reading
Once the best possible short story (or poem) has been written, rewritten and rewritten again, then the best market has been discovered and the submission has been made, we wait. That’s right, we wait. We wait some more. Seasons change. And we wait. In this waiting process, there are aContinue Reading
Now comes the big moment. The big unknown moment. The unsteady, the unsure, the insecure moment. This is the moment to get others involved in our creative work. Strangers. It’s time to submit. For most writers of fiction and most poets there is only one type of submission: the unsolicitedContinue Reading
More than 30 years ago, I learned to type. I learned on a massive IBM Selectric. The Selectric typewriter was an unbelievable machine. It’s size was impressive, if nothing else. It hummed. I liked the humming. It grew hot to the touch, and at times it was almost untouchably hot.Continue Reading
When I began my life as a writer of fiction, I had it in my mind to write novels. All I wanted to do was write the sort of book that I like to read. Or the sorts of book that I might like to read should they exist. OfContinue Reading