Tag Archives: Author
Writing
Delete your opening paragraph. Some of the most compelling stories drop you right into the middle of them. Positively Purging-I welcome your feedbacks in the comments and your likes and passing the real life wisdom on to others as … Continue reading
Aspiring Poets
Your poetry collection, The Hill We Climb and Other Poems, comes out in December. Is there any advice you’d give to aspiring poets, in terms of the creative process? Great readers make great writers. Read as much as you can, both to … Continue reading
The Writer’s Focus
Once you have your framework in place, you’ll need to be ruthless. Everything in a story must work to tell the tale. Think of your novel like a television news story. If the story is about a murder, you’ll usually … Continue reading
The Novel
To abandon the novel- would be a surrender. It would allow my sorrow to become curtains on all the windows, locks on all the doors Yet the leaves would still fall outside, and the snow. In the coming spring, new … Continue reading
Advice for a Writer
Make your work. Find a way to make your work. I think that’s the best way to see if your work has legs. So, many times as writers, we’re in our own heads, literally. And people don’t really like to … Continue reading
Real Life of an MSW 