While at one of the retreats for my MFA writing program, one of the faculty said to us, the great writers, who drank, “succeeded in spite of the alcohol, not because of it.”   I’m not sure if I agree or not.   Don’t get me wrong.   I’m not saying you should run right out and get […]

          Instead of the blogs I’ve done in the past few weeks, I thought I would add in a little excerpt from that novel I’ve been working on for so long.   It doesn’t need much introduction: Sabrah, the main perspective here, has just fallen onto some rubble of a bell tower he all but destroyed.            As […]

          Ideas come from the strangest places: sometimes, just a word or phrase can spark an idea, and, suddenly, you’re off, clicking away on the keyboard until it becomes a living, breathing, full-fledged story.   I can only imagine what it looks like to other people: you stare off into nothing whilst following an invisible trail of […]

          I’ll tell you something I learned from writing a blog: introductions are important.   Granted, from the readers’ side, it’s only been a few weeks, but it’s been a bit longer on this end.   Days get away from you, then, suddenly, the week is over, and you’ve missed your opportunity to post.   Sure, you could post […]