The true test of talent for a fiction writer is the ability to imagine pain, angst, despair, discouragement, frustration as well as joy, ecstasy, elation and pleasure. This is the power that runs the machine of character creation that lies at the very heart of storytelling. As we fiction practitioners understand, craft can be learned, […]
I came to poetry with a deep desperation to be acknowledged, to find alternate realities, to exist in a space that belonged only to me. Books, poems, and words offered me the respite I couldn’t find in the physical world. When I read a book, I completely disappeared into that reality. I was not a […]
Why do I write? Well for the money of course! When I received my first advance, I dumped the entire $72.50 on my bed and just rolled around in it, while blasting Coolio’s Money. However, I think, before I was corrupted by wealth, my drive to write came from a much more organic place. I […]
I began writing to combat loneliness. This might seem strange because writing itself is a lonely affair. But after I left my job of twelve years and moved out of state to stay home to raise my young children, I had to start over: new town, new friends, new purpose. Bringing life to characters who […]
Words have power. I feel that power whenever I sit down to put my thoughts into an understandable form. I love language and the ability of some to string words together in a way that thrills your heart while encouraging people to think, to question, to dream. I believe in the power of story—whether those […]
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