Writer & Coach
Writer & Coach
One of the few things I like about social media is the chance to think things through. This was one of them. In the wake of recent political events, I posted this along with the below photo: Please, please, please – for the love of …
The problem, she said, with being a writer is, it’s never done. The line never ceases movement even when the end arrives – The ripples created on the mind span an ocean so vast, so incomplete, There’s no shore to find, no place to rest. …
28 days of Flash — 27 of 28 Iris woke up on a floor. Not the concrete of the train station nor the unpleasant vibrating metal and rubber of the train, but a real floor. Varnished wood planks were under her and a thick red …
In February 2023, I challenged myself to craft one piece of Flash a day. For the sake of defining what that means, I consider Flash to be anything between 800 and 1,000 words, and it could be fiction or non-fiction. What I learned was invaluable …
28 days of Flash — 26 of 28 Mari was in the salad bar line at the grocery store at lunch when she felt her phone buzz with a new text message. She ignored it. Texts were for ignoring until you decided to pay attention …
28 days of Flash — 25 ot 28 — two different voice treatments of the same narrative — Method Writing Take 1: You — Straight Talk You are not going to believe what just happened to me. So we just got back from the big …
28 days of Flash — 24 of 28 — Part 1 — Boundaries Jayne sat in the front passenger seat of the RV and stewed. She couldn’t even look at Katie, right next to her, chomping on popcorn. Katie just kept pointing and reeling off names. …
28 days of Flash — 23 of 28 — Omniscient POV practice Katie turned her RV into the parking lot of the Stardust Convention Center an hour before the start of her 30th high school reunion. She parked in the back of the lot, out of the way but …
28 Days of Flash — 22 of 28 — Using the prompt for a title, I might have taken it a bit too literally. 28 days of Flash — 22 of 28 Oh sure. It seems like it would be fantastic to be the fifth largest …
28 days of Flash — 21 of 28 — Part 3 Read: Breaking Ben and Thea Beginning When Evan looked at his phone, it was still showing “Do Not Disturb” and had five notifications silenced in the background. Two of them were sales texts, one was a missed …