My first actual paid stories were six 100-word stories (often called “drabbles”) in 2016. I was paid US$5 for each. It was a big shot of validation early in my career.
One theme I wanted to explore in the first Deacon Carver book was how bureaucracy weighs down organizations. One of my key scenes for demonstrating that was in Deacon’s onboarding process, where he confronts the concept of “cost-to-company.”
In my writing course, we were tasked with writing a scene. it was to be exactly 500 words in length, and during the scene, the reader was to become aware of a truth without it being said.
This is long overdue, and I apologize. But it will be a while yet. There are two reasons you haven’t
This is a three-part post. The first focuses on software and websites that offer Software as a Service. The second
With over twenty years’ experience as a writer, I thought I’d share some software and Software-as-a-Service sites that I’ve found indispensable,
Two months ago, I started selling my own clothes online as “Skrap Apparel on Etsy.” I don’t have a marketing
Look, we’re all struggling to make money, authors as much as anyone else. As a writer, you can focus all
A discussion among authors around a list of suggested trigger warnings got me to thinking: how would the books that influenced me stack up to this list?
Back when I was in university, I wrote some short fiction. I even got some backhand praise for it (“It’s too real, you’re writing a memoir and passing it off as fiction”), if not the best grades