Nailing the beginning of our stories is key to hooking readers and keeping them turning the pages. But there's sooooo much we want...

The past couple months, I've been cheating on my main work in progress (a novel) by competing in a couple micro and flash fiction...

After a long loooooong hiatus, I'm kicking off this blog again. While there are several reasons behind it, probably the most important is...

My fiction students and I have spent a healthy amount of time talking about how to achieve authenticity in our work. The trick is not...